What is the best video and movie quality? Part 5
What is the best video format?
There are many different video file formats that allow you to store compressed video and audio information in a single file. Many people used to call the extension of the video file itself a video format, but in reality this extension is just a container in which videos of various formats can be stored. Some users may have faced such a situation that the downloaded video file with the familiar and familiar AVI extension did not want to be played on the computer, because a suitable codec was not found for playing.
Most of the video files distributed on the Internet are now created using the two most common containers, AVI and MKV. AVI container has been used for a long time and many different programs have been written to edit such video files, but with MKV things were quite different for a long time and users did not know how to cut an mkv file.
To play or create each video format, an appropriate codec must be installed on your computer. The most popular codecs can be counted on one hand, and we will consider some of their features below.
The XviD codec of the MPEG4 standard provides high definition images for dynamic scenes. It is distributed completely free of charge and is widely used by amateur video masters to encode any video.
DivX is still one of the most popular codecs and is compatible with all DVD players. By encoding, you get high-quality video with a high level of data compression, allowing you to get small video files. At the moment, the DivX codec is paid when used for encoding.
The H.264 codec has become very popular in recent years due to its higher compression efficiency. When encoding, a very high degree of image compression is obtained with no loss of quality. It has proven itself very well when it comes to encoding HD quality videos.
The MPEG2 codec is used to create DVD video discs and digital television.
