What are video formats and specifications?

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010 Posted in Image/Video Format Converter |

The term “format” is utilized for several items in video, however it tends to confuse people today for this really reason. So let’s clarify some definitions genuine quick:

Video Format: This consist of filetypes, like MPEG-1 (MPG), MPEG-2 (MPG), Quicktime (QT), RealMedia (RM,RMVB), glass windows mass media (WMV), H.264 (MP4), Divx and Xvid (AVI), FlashVideo (FLV), etc
Playback Format: This refers towards last product or service utilized when viewing the video. illustrations consist of DVD-Video (DVD), VideoCD (VCD), streaming movie (Youtube, Flash)

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AIFF and AIFF-C

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 Posted in Software Tips & Tricks |

AIFF stands for Audio Interchange File Format. It was an audio format developed by Apple Computers in 1988 to store very high quality audio.

The format can store mono, stereo and even multi-channel audio that is normally used in soundtracks.

The format in accordance with Electronic Arts Interchange File Format (IFF) standards. All AIFF files will therefore have an .aif or .ief extension.

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What is the relationship between 3GP and 3GPP/3GPP2?

Monday, November 1st, 2010 Posted in TV Recorder & Player |

3GP
3GP is the name for both a video standard designed for mobile phones and the name of the container used to store video used in the standard. It was developed by a group of companies and standards organizations from Europe, North America, and Asia called 3GPP for 3rd Generation Partnership Project. The purpose of the project was developing a mobile video standard compatible with 3G (3rd Generation) GSM mobile phone systems. (Video Conversion Software)

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How to play WebM fils on my computer?

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010 Posted in How to & Trouble Shooting |

First let me ask a question: What are WebM files? WebM is a media file format designed to use mainly on the web. It is of the same kind with H.264 and Adobe Flash format and has a major advantage of being an open, royalty-free multimedia format. It defines a matroska-like multimedia container structure consisting of video compressed with the open VP8 codec and audio compressed with the Vorbis audio codec.

The WebM project grew largely out of Google’s acquisition of On2 Technologies in 2009. The project distributes WebM related software under a BSD-like license structure.

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What is the standard DVD format?

Sunday, September 5th, 2010 Posted in DVD Copy & Burn & Play |

DVD video uses MPEG-2 compression, audio can use MPEG-2 Audio, DOLBY AC-3, LPCM and DTS. DVD video resolution of 720 * 480,350 thousand pixels, the horizontal scanning more than 500, plus multi-language subtitles, AC- 3, DTS, etc. So, if filled with 8-language audio 32 language subtitles, together with LPCM, also with super-ultra-dynamic film scene, that capacity will reach 9.4GB. (MPEG-2 compression rate is variable: VCD fixed rate of 1.15Mbps, MPEG2 average of 3.5Mbps, the maximum of about 11Mbps, and VCD resolution is 324 * 240,18 million pixels, the horizontal scan 240)

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What is MP4?

Friday, July 30th, 2010 Posted in Image/Video Format Converter |

MP4 is a new container format, it is the global file extension for the official container format defined in the MPEG-4 standard. A container format allows you to combine different multimedia streams into one single file. Multimedia containers are for example the well known AVI, MPEG , Matroska, OGM. MP4 is streamable and supports all kinds of multimedia content, multiple audio-, video-, subtitlestreams, pictures, variable-framerates, -bitrates, -samplerates…) and advanced content like 2D and 3D animated graphics, user interactivity, DVD-like menus.

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Matroska, MKV, MKS, MKA

Saturday, July 24th, 2010 Posted in Software Tips & Tricks |

Matroska file formats is a new video and audio container format, it is similiar to AVI but with several new features like support for OGG audio, Variable Framerate Video, etc.
.mkv : Generally video files, as well those containing audio or video only
.mks : a so called ‘elementary’ matroska stream containing any subtitles stream
.mka : audio only files, can contain any supported audio compresion format, such as MP2, MP3, Vorbis, AAC, AC3, DTS, PCM and soon MPC ( musepack )

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What is H.264?

Monday, July 5th, 2010 Posted in Software Tips & Tricks |

H.264 is the new standard for high definition digital video, and for good reason. A codec based on the H.264 standard compresses a digital video file so that it only uses half the space of MPEG-2 (the DVD standard), to deliver the same quality video. This means you can enjoy stunning HD video the way it was meant to be seen without sacrificing speed or performance.

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What are Formats and Specifications?

Thursday, June 17th, 2010 Posted in Software Tips & Tricks |

Format - a great word in modern society, video format, audio format, picture format, table format etc. We almost see it everywhere.

The word “format” is used for many things in video, but it tends to confuse people for this very reason. So let’s clarify some definitions real quick:

Video Format: This include file types, like MPEG-1 (MPG), MPEG-2 (MPG), Quicktime (QT), RealMedia (RM,RMVB), Windows Media (WMV), H.264 (MP4), Divx and Xvid (AVI), Flash Video (FLV), etc

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