Jérôme Rota

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.[1] 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.

References
  1. Cave, Damien (15 March 2001). "Escaping the Napster trap". Salon. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010.
  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. Allbritton, Chris (30 July 2000). "MOVIE PIRATES ATTACK THE WEB New software reduces the price of a ticket to $0". Daily News. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010.
  5. "VirtualDub documentation: codecs". www.virtualdub.org. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
  6. "Video Codec Definitions". www.FOURCC.ofg. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
  7. Stam, Nick (11 January 2005). "DivX: Full Stream Ahead!". PC Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 November 2010.
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