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List of video file formats

Name

File
extension(s)

Container

Video coding
format(s)

Audio coding
Notes
format(s)
AMR-NB, AMRWB, AMR-WB+,
AAC-LC, HE-AAC
Common video format for cell phones
v1 or Enhanced
aacPlus (HE-AAC
v2)
AMR-NB, AMRWB, AMR-WB+,
AAC-LC, HE-AAC
v1 or Enhanced
Common video format for cell phones
aacPlus (HE-AAC
v2), EVRC, SMV or
VMR-WB

3GPP

.3gp

MPEG-4 Part
12

MPEG-4 Part 2,
H.263, H.264

3GPP2

.3g2

MPEG-4 Part
12

MPEG-4 Part 2,
H.263, H.264

Advanced
Systems Format
(ASF)

.asf

ASF

any

AMV video
format

.amv

Modified
Variant of Motion
version of AVI[4] JPEG

Variant of IMA,
ADPCM

AVI
Dirac

.avi
.drc

any
Dirac

any
?

F4V

.flv

H.264

MP3, AAC

Flash Video
(FLV)

.flv

AVI
?
MPEG-4 Part
12
FLV

any

VP6, Sorenson
MP3, ADPCM,
Spark, Screen video, Nellymoser, Speex,
Screen video 2,
AAC
H.264

Proprietary video file format produced


for MP4 players and S1 MP3 players
with video playback
Uses RIFF
Replacement for FLV.
Use of the H.264 and AAC compression
formats in the FLV file format has some
limitations and authors of Flash Player
strongly encourage everyone to embrace

Name

File
extension(s)

Video coding
format(s)

Container

Audio coding
format(s)

Notes
the new standard F4V file format.[2] De
facto standard for web-based streaming
video (over RTMP).

Flash Video
(FLV)

.flv .f4v
Audio, video,
.f4p .f4a .f4b text, data

Adobe Flash
Platform

GIF

.gif

N/A

M4V (file
format for videos
for iPods and
PlayStation
.m4v
Portables
developed by
Apple)
Material
Exchange Format .mxf
(MXF)
Matroska
.mkv
MPEG-1

.mpg,
.mp2,
.mpeg,
.mpe, .mpv

N/A

MPEG-4 Part
12

H.264

Developed by Apple, used in iTunes.


AAC, Dolby Digital Very similar to MP4 format, but may
optionally have DRM.

MXF

Matroska

Any

Any
MPEG-1 Audio
Layer I, MPEG-1
Old, but very widely used due to
Audio Layer I,
installed base.
MPEG-1 Audio
Layer III (MP3)
AAC, MP3, MPEG-2
Part 3, others

MPEG-1 part 1 MPEG-1 part 2

.mpg,
?
.mpeg, .m2v
.mp4, .m4p
MPEG-4 Part 14
MPEG-4 Part
(with
(MP4)
12
DRM), .m4v
Multiple-image .mng
N/A
MPEG-2 Video

SWF, F4V, ISO base


Developed by the Adobe Flash Platform
media file format
Simple animation, inefficient
none
compression, no sound, widely
supported

H.262
H.264, MPEG-4
Part 2, MPEG-2,
MPEG-1
N/A

Advanced Audio
Coding, MP3, others
none

Inefficient, not widely used.

Name

File
extension(s)

Network Graphics
Nullsoft
Streaming Video .nsv
(NSV)
Ogg Video
.ogv, .ogg
QuickTime File
.mov, .qt
Format
Raw video format .yuv
RealMedia (RM) .rm
RealMedia
Variable Bitrate .rmvb
(RMVB)
ROQ
.roq
SVI

.svi

Video alternative .gifv


to GIF

Video coding
format(s)

Container

Audio coding
format(s)

NSV

Ogg

Theora, Dirac

Vorbis, FLAC

Quicktime

Many[3]

AAC, MP3, others[3]

Further
documentation Doesn't apply
needed
RealMedia
RealVideo

Notes

For streaming video content over the


Internet

Doesn't apply

Supports all resolutions, sampling


structures, and frame rates

RealAudio

Made for RealPlayer

RealMedia
RealVideo
Variable Bitrate

RealAudio

Made for RealPlayer

HTML

Any

none

used by Quake 3[5]


Samsung video format for portable
players
Not standardized, and not a real video
file in the classical meaning since it
merely references the real video file
(e.g. a .webm file), which has to exist
separately elsewhere. A .gifv "file" is
simply a HTML webpage which
includes a HTML5 video tag, where the
video has no sound. As there were large
communities online which create art
using the medium of short soundless
videos in GIF format, GIFV was created
as a functionally similar replacement
with vastly smaller filesizes than the

Name

File
extension(s)

Container

Vob

.vob

VOB

WebM

.webm

Matroska

Windows Media
.wmv
Video

See also

ASF

Video coding
format(s)

Audio coding
format(s)

Notes

inefficient GIF format.


Files in VOB format have .vob filename
PCM, DTS, MPEGextension and are typically stored in the
H.262/MPEG-2 Part 1, Audio Layer II
VIDEO_TS folder at the root of a DVD.
2 or MPEG-1 Part 2 (MP2), or Dolby
The VOB format is based on the MPEG
Digital (AC-3)
program stream format.
Royalty-free format created for HTML5
VP8, VP9
Vorbis, Opus
video.
Windows Media
Video, Windows
Windows Media
Media Video Screen, Audio, Sipro
Windows Media
ACELP.net
Video Image

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