See also: Video | File Formats | AV Software
Video Container
- AudioVideo Interleaved (*.AVI)
- Ogg Multimedia Container (*.OGM)
- Advanced Systems Format (*.ASF, *.WMV)
- Quicktime‘s container (*.MOV)
- Matroska (*.MKV)
- Multimedia Container Formats (*.MFC)
- MPEG-4‘s container (*.MP4)
- Real Video‘s container (*.RM)
- Resource Interchange File Format (*.RDI)
Video Compression
- DivX, XviD and 3ivx usually in AVI, OGM, MKV, MP4 or MOV.
- Dirac.
- Ogg Theora still in developement.
- Real Video only in RM.
- Quicktime‘s Sorenson only in MOV.
- Windows Media Video in WMV.
- MPEG-2 in MPG.
Related
- Video codec test (http://www.extremetech.com/print-article/0,1583,a=121163,00.asp) – Tested (proprietary) codecs are: DivX 5.1.1, Windows Media Video 9, QuickTime 6.5/Sorenson3, QuickTime 6.5/MPEG-4. The test concludes DivX 5.1.1 and Windows Media Video 9 as the best overal codecs based on quality and usability.
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