Learn about Video File Formats and APIs to open and create Video files

What are Video File Formats?

Following is a list of popular Video file formats that find their use in almost all daily work related to videos.

AVI - Audio Video Interleave File

The AVI file format is an Audio Video multimedia container file format that was introduced by Microsoft. It holds the audio and video data created and compressed using several codecs (Coders/Decoders) such as XVid and DivX. Since different codecs can be used to encode the AVI contents, the retrieving applications i.e. AVI players, should be able to open these only if they have the required codecs installed with which the AVI contents were created. Read More »

M4V

Learn about M4V file format and APIs that can create and open M4V files. Read More »

MOV

Learn about MOV file format and APIs that can create and open MOV files. Read More »

WMV

Learn about WMV file format and APIs that can create and open WMV files. Read More »