MP4
MP4 is a container format that can include multimedia content such as video and sound tracks, graphics, 2D and 3D animations, subtitled texts, interactive applications in the form of menus, and much more. Despite the strong compression, a file in MP4 format offers a very good picture and sound quality. The Apple Quick-Time based document, […]
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OGG is a container format developed by Xiph.org in which various media content, such as audio or video elements, graphics or subtitles, can be implemented. The associated compression format is called Vorbis and works lossy because certain frequency ranges that are not perceived by the ear, are filtered out. Compared to a file in mp3 […]
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RAW is a file format that is also considered a digital negative. At first, RAW only specifies a certain raw data format in which images or videos are either not compressed at all, loss-free or lossy, in order to allow as flexible a postprocessing as possible. Different camera manufacturers rely on RAW format on different […]
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WMV files are video files in a proprietary format developed by Microsoft. This Windows-native format is usually open with Microsoft Windows with no problems with the Windows Media Player – on other operating systems but additional downloads or installations are necessary.
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The FL ash V ideo format is, as the name suggests, a system based on Adobe Flash Video format, which has especially been widely circulated on the Internet. Due to its proximity to Flash, the FLV format can also be embedded in Flash files (swf).
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The mkv file format is an audio and video file format . Since this is a so-called container format , the data can be stored in different codecs . The abbreviation mkv stands for Matroska Video, and is quite indicative of how it works: A Russian matryoshka doll contains many more (smaller) dolls – just […]
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The .avi file format is a container format developed by Microsoft for audio and video files. The abbreviation .avi stands for Audio Video Interleave, which means something like "interlacing of audio and video data", and is a description of the technical background. Since .avi files can contain different codecs (a codec is a kind of […]
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The pptx file extension is used by Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 and younger to store presentations. Earlier versions of PowerPoint use the ppt extension. Opening a pptx file launches the PowerPoint software in editor mode. There is another format, ppsx, that will start the slide show presentation right away. A pptx file is a zip-compressed package […]
Read MoreFLV to MP4
For a long time, Flash Video was the dominant standard on the Internet and streaming platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo opted for the flv format (Flash Video). Smaller platforms still use Flash Videos today, whereas the largest streamers have long switched to HTML5-based videos. Flash is a crucial security vulnerability in browsers, smartphones often […]
Read MoreMOV to MP4
Videos created with Apple devices (e.g. iPhone, iPad, …) are usually saved in Apple's own .mov format. If these are to be played back on other devices, conversion to another format is usually necessary. The .mp4 format is the most common format supported by most devices. Conversion from .mov to .mp4 offers the greatest possible […]
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