Xvid.org has released an updated 1.1.3 version, dated 12.04.2008. This update contains a fix for a security vulnerability, so it is a must to update to this version.

For those of you who don’t know nothing about Xvid, it is a codec (Encoder/Decoder) for playing or converting avi files.

This is the most popular video codec today. If you download movies or videos in avi format, you need this codec in order to take advantage of its features.

To read more about video codecs, here is an article in wikipedia that covers the topic.

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