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.
See also Graphics: Animated image formats.
- Ace Film
- AVC (file format)
- Bink Video (BIK)
- Cyber Paint Sequence
- DPX
- Enhanced VOB
- FLIC (FLI/FLC; animation format used by older Autodesk products)
- GRASP GL animation format
- IFF-DEEP
- MJ2
- 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)
- 3G2
- 3GP
- ASF
- AVI
- F4V
- FLV
- M4V
- Matroska
- MK3D
- MKV
- MP4
- MXF
- OGG
- QuickTime
- Replay
- VOB
- VP8
- VP9
- 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
- Daala
- Dirac
- H.264
- HuffyYUV
- Indeo
- Moving Blocks - Acorn Replay stream
- MPEG and all of its variants (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc.)
- 3ivx (this is just another fourcc for an MPEG-4 variant)
- DivX (this is essentially MPEG-4 with some quirks)
- Packetized Elementary Stream (packet format within MPEG streams)
- XviD (another MPEG-4 variant)
- Sorenson Video Codec
- Theora
- VC-1
- VC-3
Metadata formats
Subtitle formats
- CMML (Continuous Media Markup Language)
- CVD (An SVCD subtitle format)
- DVD subtitle format
- DXFP (Distribution Format Exchange Profile)
- JACOsub (Subtitles for Amiga video)
- Kate (OGG Kate subtitle format)
- Matroska subtitles
- OGT (Philips Overlay Graphics Text)
- SAMI subtitle format (SMI)
- Spruce Subtitle Format (STL)
- Structured Subtitle Format (SSF)
- SubRip text file format (SRT)
- SubStation Alpha (SSA, ASS)
- SUP (HD-DVD subtitle format)
- Universal Subtitle Format (USF)
- VobSub subtitle format (.sub, .idx)
- XSUB (XSUB subtitle format)
Video Developer/Editor files
Video streaming services
Television broadcast formats
See Radio for more details of how such broadcasts are transmitted.
Unknown, or "It's Complicated"
These formats might eventually get sorted into the above categories, or might not quite fit in any of them.
- AVS
- Canopus ProCoder
- Cineform
- Cinema Craft Encoder
- Elecard
- FIASCO
- InterVideo
- MainConcept
- MSU Lossless Video Codec
- NSD (Nero Super Video CD)
- SheerVideo
- TechSmith Screen Capture Codec
