Media Players

VLC Media Player is Video LAN Client (vlc).

Windows Media Player (wmp.).

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Video

Main article: Container format (digital)

• AAF – mostly intended to hold edit decisions and rendering information, but can also contain compressed media essence
• 3GP – the most common video format for cell phones
• GIF – Animated GIF (simple animation; until recently often avoided because of patent problems)
• ASF – container (enables any form of compression to be used; MPEG-4 is common; video in ASF-containers is also called Windows Media Video (WMV))
• AVCHD – Advanced Video Codec High Definition
• AVI – container (a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used)
• CAM – aMSN webcam log file
• DAT – video standard data file (automatically created when we attempted to burn as video file on the CD)
• DSH
• FLV – Flash video (encoded to run in a flash animation)
• M1V MPEG-1 – Video
• M2V MPEG-2 – Video
• FLA – Macromedia Flash (for producing)
• FLR – (text file which contains scripts extracted from SWF by a free ActionScript decompiler named FLARE)
• SOL – Adobe Flash shared object ("Flash cookie")
• M4V – (file format for videos for iPods and PlayStation Portables developed by Apple)
• Matroska (*.mkv) – Matroska is a container format, which enables any video format such as MPEG-4 ASP or AVC to be used along with other content such as subtitles and detailed meta information
• WRAP – MediaForge (*.wrap)
• MNG – mainly simple animation containing PNG and JPEG objects, often somewhat more complex than animated GIF
• QuickTime (.mov) – container which enables any form of compression to be used; Sorenson codec is the most common; QTCH is the filetype for cached video and audio streams
• MPEG (.mpeg, .mpg, .mpe)

• MPEG-4 Part 14, shortened "MP4" – multimedia container (most often used for Sony's PlayStation Portable and Apple's iPod)

• MXF – Material Exchange Format (standardized wrapper format for audio/visual material developed by SMPTE)
• ROQ – used by Quake 3
• NSV – Nullsoft Streaming Video (media container designed for streaming video content over the Internet)
• Ogg – container, multimedia
• RM – RealMedia
• SVI – Samsung video format for portable players
• SMI – SAMI Caption file (HTML like subtitle for movie files)
• SWF – Macromedia Flash (for viewing)
• WMV – Windows Media Video (See ASF)

The 5 formats reviewed in the above video are JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, and EPS.