Why use divx 3 instead of xvid when transcodeing?

[m.e]

Why is there no xvid codec support for transcoding? I mean xvid gives much better quality than div3 and still it's not nearly as resource hungry as h264. From what I understand ffmpeg has support for encoding xvid so vlc should be able to have it too.

[dionoea]

that's what we use to stream WMP compatible streams (without needing to install extra codecs on the client computer). Of course you should use h264 if you can