Add your DIVX file
Drop one or more .divx files onto the converter above, or browse for them. They load into browser memory only — nothing is uploaded, so there is no size-based pricing and no server queue.
DIVX to ALAC
Pulling the soundtrack out of a .divx video into .alac audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. Free, private, and validated — the file never leaves your browser.
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Drop DIVX files here
Batch files can each use a different output. Nothing uploads for local conversions.
Working inputs include camera RAW, browser-local audio/video, PDF, CBZ/CBR comics, office documents, ebooks, markup, 3D models, structured text, images, and archives.About converting DivX video to Apple Lossless audio
Pulling the soundtrack out of a .divx video into .alac audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. A .divx file is video packaged for the DivX ecosystem: an AVI-derived container carrying MPEG-4 Part 2 video compressed with the DivX codec. The extension appeared on rips and downloads throughout the 2000s, when DivX certification logos on DVD players promised these files would play from burned discs.
ALAC, the Apple Lossless Audio Codec, compresses music with zero quality sacrifice, and the .alac extension is occasionally used to label such files explicitly even though the codec normally travels inside an .m4a container. Decoding reproduces the original samples exactly, making it Apple's counterpart to FLAC. For this route the practical draw is native on every Apple platform from iOS to HomePod and mathematically lossless reconstruction — balanced against compresses slightly worse than FLAC on average, which is worth knowing before you commit a large batch.
Why convert DIVX to ALAC?
The usual reason to take .alac audio out of a .divx file is that only the sound matters — a talk, interview, song, or podcast segment. Keeping the video stream would waste storage, and a dedicated audio file is easier to trim, tag, and play. On the source side, obsolete next to H.264 and H.265, needing more bits for the same quality; on the target side, the payoff is native on every Apple platform from iOS to HomePod, which is exactly what you want for building a lossless library that syncs cleanly to iPhones and the Music app.
DIVX vs ALAC at a glance
| Aspect | DivX video (.divx) | Apple Lossless audio (.alac) |
|---|---|---|
| Format type | Container — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside | Lossless — every pixel or sample is preserved exactly |
| How it stores data | aVI-compatible RIFF layout extended by the DivX Media Format with menus, chapters, and XSUB bitmap subtitles | linear-prediction compression conceptually similar to FLAC, typically reaching 40 to 60 percent of PCM size |
| Strongest at | playing movie archives from the 2000s downloading era | building a lossless library that syncs cleanly to iPhones and the Music app |
| Weak spot | obsolete next to H.264 and H.265, needing more bits for the same quality | compresses slightly worse than FLAC on average |
| Metadata | inherits RIFF INFO tags from AVI, plus DivX-specific chapter and menu structures in Media Format files | inherits the full iTunes metadata atom set from its MPEG-4 container, including artwork, composer, and grouping fields |
Pick ALAC as the output
Select .alac in the output menu next to each file. The menu only offers targets this engine can genuinely produce, so if ALAC is selectable, the route is real and validated.
Convert on your device
Press Convert. A WebAssembly FFmpeg build demuxes the audio track and re-encodes it locally; the video stream is simply discarded.
Verify and download
Each result is signature-checked before the download unlocks, so a failed encode can never masquerade as a valid ALAC file. Outputs keep the original filename with the .alac extension.
DIVX to ALAC questions, answered
Will converting DIVX to ALAC lose quality?
Since divx is container-oriented and alac is lossless-oriented, the conversion preserves the source content exactly as stored; no additional compression pass is applied beyond what .alac itself requires.
Is it private to convert DIVX files here?
Yes — the .divx file is processed inside your browser tab and never uploaded. A WebAssembly FFmpeg build demuxes the audio track and re-encodes it locally; the video stream is simply discarded. Close the tab and the file is gone from memory.
Where will the ALAC file work?
Every Apple device and application plays ALAC natively, and cross-platform players such as VLC and foobar2000 handle it on Windows, Linux, and Android. Outside the Apple world support varies by player, which is why cross-platform archives still tend to favor FLAC.
Will the ALAC file be bigger or smaller than my DIVX?
Much smaller — the video stream is usually 80–95% of a .divx file's weight, and it is discarded entirely. The remaining audio is re-encoded at the bitrate implied by your quality setting.
What happens to the metadata in my DIVX file?
This converter strips container metadata deliberately (the FFmpeg command runs with metadata mapping disabled) so exported files do not leak recording details. In the source, inherits RIFF INFO tags from AVI, plus DivX-specific chapter and menu structures in Media Format files; none of it is transmitted anywhere because the file never leaves your browser.