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
- Basics of streaming protocols
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)
- DPX
- Enhanced VOB
- FLIC (FLI/FLC; animation format used by older Autodesk products)
- 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)
Video streaming services
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
