VIDEO FILE FORMATS

AVI - Common movie, computer video container file format. AVI is abbreviation for Audio Video Interleave format developed by Microsoft and its based on Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). Audio or video content can be compressed with a wide variety of video or audio and video codecs and can be stored in an .avi file, but the codecs (DivX, XVID, MP3, AAC) it self must be installed in operating system and supported by the multimedia device (DVD player, portable player etc.).

MPG (MPEG) - video format developed by Moving Picture Experts Group. MPEG is an ISO standard used by many multimedia devices (DVD players, Blu-RAY, portable players, computers).

VOB - DVD Video object file. A .vobfile is a container file which includes most of the movie data, including the video and audio streams, along with subtitles and any other DVD menu features. DVD uses the MPEG-2 compression.

MP4 - MPEG-4 multimedia file format based on ISO standard MPEG-4. The MPEG-4 file format, as defined by the MPEG-4 specification, contains MPEG-4 encoded video and advanced audio coding (AAC)-encoded audio content.

M2TS- Blu-Ray MPEG-2 stream. The M2TS container format is based on the standard MPEG-2. Blu-ray are using transport streams, instead of DVD's program streams, to store video, audio, and other data.

MOV -  Apple QuickTime multimedia container format that can store one or more tracks of data such as video, audio, text, and effects.

3GP – Its is standard for the creation, delivery and playback of multimedia over 3rd generation, high-speed wireless networks.

MKV - Matroska video-audio multimedia file, which is an open standard container format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file.

FLV – Flash Video File, It is an open format that is also supported by many non-Adobe/Macromedia programs. The .flv files may also be exported from QuickTime Pro or other applications that can export to the QuickTime file format.

WMV - The WMV file extension is used for Windows Media Video files. Advanced Systems Format (.asf) files that include audio, video, or both compressed with Windows Media Audio (WMA) and Windows Media Video (WMV) codecs.

MJPEG - Motion JPEG is a sub-category of motion video codecs where successive frames are encoded using the standard JPEG algorithm. No interframe compression is performed and the resulting encoded data generally does not achieve the same level of compression as a codec using interframe techniques. However, decompression is usually faster and any frame can be referenced independently since there are no dependencies on other frames. Plus, there are fewer legal caveats when using the open JPEG standard.