Monday 12 September 2011

video formats(glossary of terms)


Audio Video Interleave known by its acronym AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of it’s a Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. Like the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video, although these features are seldom used.



MOV video file functions as a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks, each of which stores a particular type of data: audio, video, effects, or text (e.g. for subtitles). Each track either contains a digitally-encoded media stream or a data reference to the media stream located in another file.
MOV video file is a file format used by the QuickTime-wrapped files.









Windows Media Video (WMV) is a video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft,. The original video format, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to Real Video.

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