Markus Moenig (german: link=no, Markus Mönig), is a German

Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...

and Computer scientist. He is the CEO of BrainDistrict GmbH, a

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manufacturing company. He was the founder of

MainConcept MainConcept GmbH is a software company founded in Germany by Markus Moenig and Thomas Zabel. They specialize in developing video/audio codecs and also applications and plug-ins related to video/audio encoding. They are a subsidiary of Endeavor ...

, a

video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syst ...

audio codec An audio codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream (a codec) that encodes or decodes audio. In software, an audio codec is a computer program implementing an algorithm that compresses and decompres ...

s developing company which was acquired by DivX, Inc. in 2007.

Biography

Markus started early by developing IP Video codecs. In 1993, during his student days he and Thomas Zabel founded

company to become a dominant provider of

s. The company earned recognition by developing award winning video codecs which were licensed and integrated in products of many companies including Adobe. MainConcept was acquired by DivX, Inc. in November 2007 for US$22 Million. At the same time Markus joined DivX and soon after became Senior Vice President and CTO in February 2008. During his term, his focus was to integrate

H.264 Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding. It is by far the most commonly used format for the recording, compression, and distr ...

digital video technology into the DivX product line. The technology was later implemented into DivX 7 and released in January 2009. Markus resigned from DivX shortly after in December 2008 in order to find entrepreneurial opportunities in his own country. In 2009, Markus founded BrainDistrict GmbH, a

3d graphics software 3D computer graphics, or “3D graphics,” sometimes called CGI, 3D-CGI or three-dimensional computer graphics are graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data (often Cartesian) that is stored in the computer for th ...

manufacturing company. He is now retired, living in Thailand and creates open source graphic applications.

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