Jérôme Rota Explained

Jérôme Rota (Saint-Jean-de-Védas, 1973) is a French software developer. He is also known by the name Gej.[1] [2] [3]

In 1999, while he was working as a graphic designer and a technical director in an advertising agency in France, he made the "DivX ;-)" 3.11 Alpha video codec (the smiley was a part of the name) by hacking the Microsoft MPEG-4v3 codec[4] (which was actually not MPEG-4 compliant) from Windows Media Tools 4 codecs.[5] [6] His hack had the advantage of supporting the AVI formatted files. Initial peer-to-peer rapid spread of the program turned into its introductions to the markets. As a result, a company was established.

The new project was first given the name ProjectMayo, and an open-source MPEG-4 codec called OpenDivX was made. It was later changed into a proprietary, closed-source product and the name was changed to DivX (dropping the smiley from the original MSMPEG-4 hack). Rota joined the company DivX, Inc. (formerly known as DivXNetworks, Inc.), based in San Diego, in 2000.[7] The company employed up to 300 employees by February 2007.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Escaping the Napster trap . Cave . Damien . 15 March 2001 . Salon . https://web.archive.org/web/20121102082327/http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2001/03/15/divx_part1 . 2 November 2012 . dead .
  2. Paolo Poli Come si fa a usare il formato DivX 2005 p 6 "È stato inventato nel 1998 dall'hacker francese Jérôme Rota (nickname "Gej"). ... Jérôme Rota era un esperto programmatore ed è pertanto riuscito a violare la tecnica di codifica Microsoft, utilizzandola per creare il primo codec video DivX, ..."
  3. Les mots de l'informatique: Dictionnaire illustré pour bien Daniel Ichbiah - 2007 -...p92 "DivX, une initiative française - Né à Montpellier, Jérôme Rota a suivi des études d'électronique et de cinéma. Alors qu'il travaillait comme infographiste dans une société de prestation audiovisuelle, il a été amené à opérer des compressions ..."
  4. Web site: MOVIE PIRATES ATTACK THE WEB New software reduces the price of a ticket to $0 . Allbritton . Chris . 30 July 2000 . . https://archive.today/20101129162104/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/lifestyle/2000/07/30/2000-07-30_movie_pirates_attack_the_web.html . 29 November 2010 . dead .
  5. Web site: VirtualDub documentation: codecs . 8 August 2009 . www.virtualdub.org.
  6. Web site: Video Codec Definitions . 8 August 2009 . www.FOURCC.ofg.
  7. Web site: DivX: Full Stream Ahead! . Stam . Nick . 11 January 2005 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20121012141145/http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1750399,00.asp . 12 October 2012 . dead .

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