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Some video formats you may encounter include, Apple QuickTime, AVI, IVIPEG, Real Video, Windows ASF and Windows Media Video. Recently a new trend of encapsulating video in macromedia. Flash files.
Apple QuickTime QuickTime IS popular cross platform video format. You can download a free Apple QuickTime player from Apple.
ASF: ASF or advanced Streaming Format is specially designed to run over the internet. ASF files can be highly compressed and can be delivered as a continuous flow of data (on-line TV or radio). Files can be of any size and can be compressed to match many different bandwidths (connection speeds).
ASX: ASX (Advanced Stream Redirector) tiles are not media files, but metafiles. ASX files are plain text files used to describe multimedia content.
AVI: The AVI (Audio Video Interleave) format was developed by Microsoft. AVI is a common format for Windows based PC because it comes bundled with the operating system is part of the “video for Windows (Vfw)" distribution. The format is interleaved such that video and audio data are stored consecutively in an AVI file (i.e. &. segment of video data is immediately followed by a segment of audio data.)
MPEG: MPEG stands for Moving Picture Experts Group and refers to the family of standards used for coding audio-visual information (e.g., movies, video, and music) in a digital compressed format. A major advantage of MPEG compared to other video and audio coding formats is its sophisticated compression technologies.
Windows media player The WMV (windows media player) is a video format developed by Microsoft. WMV is designed to handle all types of video content. Files can be highly compressed and can be delivered as a stream. WMV files can be of any size and be compressed to match many different bandwidths (Connection speeds). You can download Media Player 10 from Microsoft for free.
Multimedia video formats
The AVI format
The AVI format is supported by all computers running Windows, and by all the most popular web browsers. It is a very common format on the internet, but not always possible to play on non-Windows computers.
Videos stored in the AVI format have the extension. avi
The windows media format
Windows Media is a common format on the Internet, but Windows Media movies cannot be played on non-Windows computer without an extra (free) component installed. Some later Windows Media movies cannot play at all on non-Windows computers because no player is available.
Videos stored in the windows media format have the extension. wmv.
The MPEG format
The MPEG (Moving Pictures Expert Group) format is the most popular format on the Internet. It is cross-platform, and supported by all the most popular web browsers.
Videos stored in the quick time format have the extension. mov.
The quick time format The QuickTime format is developed by Apple.
QuickTime is a common format on the Internet, but QuickTime movies cannot be played on a Windows computer without an extra (free) component installed.
Videos stored in the QuickTime format have the extension .mov.
The Real Video format
The Real Video format was developed for the Internet by Real Media.
The format allows streaming of video (on-line video, Internet TV) with low bandwidths. Because of the low bandwidth priority, quality is often reduced.
Videos stored in the real video format have the extension .rm or .ram.
The shockwave (Flash) Format
The shockwave format was developed by macromedia.
The Shockwave format requires an extra component to play. This component comes preinstalled with the latest versions of Nets cape and Internet Explorer.
Videos stored in the shockwave format have the extension. swf.
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