WebM |
.webm |
HTML5 Web Browsers |
Matroska |
VP8, VP9 |
Vorbis, Opus |
Royalty-free format created for HTML5 video. |
Matroska |
.mkv |
HTML5 Web Browsers |
Matroska |
Any |
Any |
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Flash Video (FLV) |
.flv |
Web Browsers with Flash Plugin |
FLV |
VP6, Sorenson Spark, Screen video, Screen video 2, H.264 |
MP3, ADPCM, Nellymoser, Speex, AAC |
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 the new standard F4V file format.[2] De facto standard for web-based streaming video (over RTMP). |
F4V |
.flv |
Web Browsers with Flash Plugin |
MPEG-4 Part 12 |
H.264 |
MP3, AAC |
Replacement for FLV. |
Vob |
.vob |
DVDs |
VOB |
H.262/MPEG-2 Part 2 or MPEG-1 Part 2 |
PCM, DTS, MPEG-1, Audio Layer II (MP2), or Dolby Digital (AC-3)] |
Files in VOB format have .vob filename extension and are typically stored in the VIDEO_TS folder at the root of a DVD.[5] The VOB format is based on the MPEG program stream format. |
Ogg Video |
.ogv, .ogg |
HTML5 Web Browsers |
Ogg |
Theora, Dirac |
Vorbis, FLAC |
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Dirac |
.drc |
|
? |
Dirac |
? |
|
GIF |
.gif |
Web Browsers |
N/A |
N/A |
none |
Simple animation, inefficient compression, no sound, widely supported |
Video alternative to GIF |
.gifv |
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HTML |
Any |
none |
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 inefficient GIF format. |
Multiple-image Network Graphics |
.mng |
|
N/A |
N/A |
none |
Inefficient, not widely used. |
AVI |
.avi |
Windows |
AVI |
any |
any |
Uses RIFF |
QuickTime File Format |
.mov, .qt |
OS X, iOS |
Quicktime |
Many[3] |
AAC, MP3, others[3] |
|
Windows Media Video |
.wmv |
Windows |
ASF |
Windows Media Video, Windows Media Video Screen, Windows Media Video Image |
Windows Media Audio, Sipro ACELP.net |
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Raw video format |
.yuv |
|
Further documentation needed |
Doesn't apply |
Doesn't apply |
Supports all resolutions, sampling structures, and frame rates |
RealMedia (RM) |
.rm |
Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Roku |
RealMedia |
RealVideo |
RealAudio |
Made for RealPlayer |
RealMedia Variable Bitrate (RMVB) |
.rmvb |
Windows, OS X, iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Roku |
RealMedia Variable Bitrate |
RealVideo |
RealAudio |
Made for RealPlayer |
Advanced Systems Format (ASF) |
.asf |
|
ASF |
any |
any |
|
MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4) |
.mp4, .m4p (with DRM), .m4v |
Windows, OS X, Linux (varies with codecs used) |
MPEG-4 Part 12 |
H.264, MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-2, MPEG-1 |
Advanced Audio Coding, MP3, others |
|
MPEG-1 |
.mpg, .mp2, .mpeg, .mpe, .mpv |
|
MPEG-1 part 1 |
MPEG-1 part 2 |
MPEG-1 Audio Layer I, MPEG-1 Audio Layer I, MPEG-1 Audio Layer III (MP3) |
Old, but very widely used due to installed base. |
MPEG-2 – Video |
.mpg, .mpeg, .m2v |
|
? |
H.262 |
AAC, MP3, MPEG-2 Part 3, others |
|
M4V – (file format for videos for iPods and PlayStation Portables developed by Apple) |
.m4v |
|
MPEG-4 Part 12 |
H.264 |
AAC, Dolby Digital |
Developed by Apple, used in iTunes. Very similar to MP4 format, but may optionally have DRM. |
SVI |
.svi |
|
? |
? |
? |
Samsung video format for portable players |
3GPP |
.3gp |
|
MPEG-4 Part 12 |
MPEG-4 Part 2, H.263, H.264 |
AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AMR-WB+, AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1 or Enhanced aacPlus (HE-AAC v2) |
Common video format for cell phones |
3GPP2 |
.3g2 |
|
MPEG-4 Part 12 |
MPEG-4 Part 2, H.263, H.264 |
AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AMR-WB+, AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1 or Enhanced aacPlus (HE-AAC v2), EVRCVocoder|SMV]] or VMR-WB |
Common video format for cell phones |
Material Exchange Format (MXF) |
.mxf |
|
MXF |
? |
? |
|
ROQ |
.roq |
|
? |
? |
? |
used by Quake 3[4] |
Nullsoft Streaming Video (NSV) |
.nsv |
|
NSV |
? |
? |
For streaming video content over the Internet |
Flash Video (FLV) |
.flv .f4v .f4p .f4a .f4b |
|
Audio, video, text, data |
Adobe Flash Platform |
SWF, F4V, ISO base media file format |
Developed by the Adobe Flash Platform |