Who the hell likes to watch a movie. Want you still a child or even already old, the film has become one of the means of cheap entertainment that is easy to access.
But do you know that every film or video has the format/extension that is different, depending on where you get it and who provides them. Therefore, through the following article, we will explain to you, the extension of the video what's popular and what are the advantages of each of these extensions.
AVI
As opener of the article we this time, it seems that AVI fits yes to be discussed first. AVI or Audio Video Interleave into one of the file formats of the most popular because it is often used as the format of the film and video widely through a variety of media. AVI is also often used as the default file format for the handy cam and digital camera in general. The Format was created by Microsoft is also famous because it is often combined with a codec such as DivX and XVID, but for those of you who are showing the video with a codec as already mentioned, don't forget to install file reader codec-his first yes.
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MP4
This also becomes one of the file formats most popular video in the world. YouTube is the website which makes the MP4 the more powerful because it uses the MP4 extension (in addition to MKV), as a standard file format on every video that they provide. Please be aware that the first YouTube use FLV as the extension of the video, but, since they moved to HTML5 video player, then the flash began to be abandoned and FLV into memories.
MPG
MPG or MPEG ever become the ruler of all the videos in the house you know. First time era DVD is still mushrooming in Indonesia, any files .DAT that resides in the pieces of VCD is a video that has the format of MPEG 1. In addition to VCD, MPG is also often found in DVD and even Blu-Ray as an extension of the default video that was in it.
3GP
One thing that is typical of 3gp, image runyem
Hayo, who mesem-mesem own see the file format above. Yoi, it is a 3GP and he became super famous in Indonesia, because at the beginning of the era of the 2000s, the format of these video files being the default file format for mobile phones. 3GP indeed specifically optimized as an extension of the small sized videos especially from mobile phones, especially in terms of the size of the resulting file. The thing that makes it interesting is 3GP often abused on the internet because a lot of porn videos amateurs (mainly from Indonesia) recorded using a mobile phone and produce a video with format 3GP.
WEBM
For you who do not know, WEBM is now also has become one of the video file format that started in usa in internet. He is using the format coding video VP8/VP9 and audio Vorbis or Opus as the default codec. For site Indonesia, may indeed not much use WebM as a video file format, but out there since hadinrya HTML5, WebM increasingly proliferated as a standard media files, whether it's for a forum site to news site. Same with MKV, WebM has a container called Matroska.
MKV
Who here likes the movie download via Torrent or Ganool? Must be familiar with video format MKV. Matroska Video has become a medium that is loved by the provider of the movie on the internet because it is flexible and can save a lot of video, audio, image or even subtitle files in one video file. Probably the same with popular extensions such as AVI and MP4, but Matroska is very open in terms of specifications and he became part of the open source software so it is easy to be modified.
GIFV
In the era of information technology is growing rapidly, GIFV also has become one of the famous video format among users of the virtual world, along with WEBM. If WEBM is often used for video-a short video accompanied by sound, GIFV used as a replacement of the GIF extension which is known not efficient and have a file size that is very wasteful. GIFV known as extensions are very efficient, yet easy to use, without sound, and comfortable to be aired over and over again (a loop like a GIF). Slaah one great site that makes GIFV as a default format is 9GAG.
WMV
Who's using the computer when the Windows Movie Maker and Metacafe is still in power? Yes, through both products there WMV be famous. Extension diciptkan specific to Windows this from the name alone already describes everything, Windows Media Video. Easy to use and widely supported by Windows make this video format is widely used since Windows XP play an important role in the operating system world.
That's the 8 most popular video formats and used widely in the world of technology, be it as media offline video to stream over the internet. So video formats which often do you use? Do not forget also to give your opinion through the comment field below yes.