Video
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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
