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Revision as of 18:26, 19 April 2013
Contents | 
Introduction
For an excellent introduction to the issues around audio and video formats, see A Primer on Codecs for Moving Image and Sound Archives - and 10 Recommendations for Codec Selection & Management PDF version
Pure video formats
These formats are "monolithic" video formats, meaning that the file format and the encoding of the video data are tied to each other.
- Bink Video (BIK)
 - FLI and FLC (animation format used by older Autodesk products)
 - Enhanced VOB
 - GRASP GL animation format
 - RealVideo
 - Smacker/SMK (created by RadGameTools; mostly used in games)
 - WMV
 
Video container formats
These formats are only containers for video, which can contain videos in many different encodings (or even other data like audio)
- ASF
 - AVI
 - FLV
 - M4V
 - MKV
 - MXF
 - Quicktime
 - Replay
 - VOB
 - VP8
 - WebM
 - OGG containers (with their variants OGM, OGV, etc.)
 
Video stream formats
These formats are raw bitstream formats commonly contained in one of the above containers (but not necessarily)
- Apple Intermediate Codec
 - Cinepak
 - Dirac
 - H.264
 - HuffyYUV
 - Indeo
 - Moving Blocks - Acorn Replay stream
 - MPEG and all of its variants (MPEG2, MPEG4, etc.)
 - Sorenson Video Codec
 - Theora
 - VC-1
 - VC-3
 
Simple animation formats
See Graphics: Animated image formats.
Metadata formats
Subtitle formats
- SUB and IDX (VobSub subtitle format)
 - SUP (HD-DVD subtitle format)
 - SSA and ASS (SubStation Alpha)
 - SRT (SubRip)
 - SMI (SAMI subtitle format)
 - USF (subtitles) (Universal Subtitle Format)
 - SSF (subtitles) (Structured Subtitle Format)
 - CMML (Continuous Media Markup Language)
 - CVD (An SVCD subtitle format)
 - DVD (DVD subtitle format)
 - DXFP (Distribution Format Exchange Profile)
 - JACOsub (Subtitles for Amiga video)
 - Kate (Kate subtitle format)
 - OGT (Philips Overlay Graphics Text)
 - STL (Spruce Subtitle Format)
 - XSUB (XSUB subtitle format)
 
Television broadcast formats
See Radio for more details of how such broadcasts are transmitted.
Unknown
These formats still need to be sorted into the above categories