AVI format
This format is one of the best known and most widely used as a container mainly to store series, movies and other similar videos. The .avi was released in 1992 and was undoubtedly the quintessential video export file since it was fully compatible for Windows, Apple, Linux, Unix etc.
It is currently one of the most standard formats used with S.O Windows. But not everything can be good, and if we talk about disadvantages we will say that the memory it uses to store audio and video information is large. In other words, the compression of an .avi file is quite heavy.
Another disadvantage would be the reproduction, since it is an old format it has been updated with codecs making old players no longer be able to read these updated formats and vice versa.
MPG format
A video format with worldwide compatibility, whose compression of audio and video with little loss of quality makes it possible to easily download these files from a website. The MPG file in turn is divided into MPG-1, MPG-2, MPG-3, and MPG-4, each of these with a different quality and that I explain below:
MPG-1: Quality compared to the obsolete VHS format of yesteryear, 352 × 240 resolution
MPG-2: Endowed with a slightly higher quality that can be compared with that of analog television. Its resolution is 720 × 486. This format was responsible for the success of the DVD Video
MPG-3: It was an attempt or proposal to give high resolution television quality or what is the same, for HDTV, but it was discarded giving priority to the MPG-2, later the MPG-3 will become the known audio file called MP3
MPG-4: Based on the Quicktime format and identical to the .MOV format improves the compression efficiency of the MPG-2 used by default on Apple machines. MPG-4 and MP4 is exactly the same, let’s say it is the official extension for these records. If we talk about high definition, we are definitely talking about MP4
WMV format
Microsoft Windows owns this format. To play this video file we have the Windows Media Player, or its equivalent, the great VLC player. A curiosity of this format is that it offers support for digital rights management, preventing users from copying the information, an interesting feature for online digital audio and video sellers.
These files are compressed exclusively with Microsoft codecs. with resolutions higher than 300,000 pixels, making it an ideal format for Blu-ray and HD DVD discs.
MOV format
If you don’t have a Mac in your possession, you may have come across this file on some occasions. But due to the difficult reproduction of it you have discarded it, now the thing has changed.
This standard developed by Apple allows the transmission and reproduction of high-quality visual content on the Internet in both Apple and Windows operating systems. Quicktime comes with its built-in player and since version 7 it has become a player that recognizes most current video files.
H.264 format
One of the most current formats today among video editing. Created in 2003, it has evolved, producing high video quality while keeping its bit rate low, achieving a simple structure design and a flexible format for mass use. H.264 is a codec that needs a container format in order to store that video.
It is the ideal candidate to use as a YouTube format or any tool for internet transmission.
MKV format (Matroska)
MKV format is a format used mainly for movies, series, and 3D content. This format is used because it allows you to store a lot of data in the same file. For example, include audio tracks in multiple languages.
It plays mainly on computers, but also on other devices such as televisions that have a USB connection. It works in a very similar way to MP4 and usually uses the H.264 codec.
DIVX format
It is characterized by being the first video codec that was used in the first movies in DVD Video format to be able to reduce the size and burn that content to a CD.
Divx is a compression format that allows to give images of quality similar to DVD but requiring less storage capacity. In order to view videos with divx, it is necessary to install decoders or codecs that almost always work with plugins or executables that already contain these codecs.
The DIVx format does not act on the audio compression affecting only the video.
XVID
When the Divx stopped being so popular it gave way to the XviD surpassing it for its better quality, becoming more famous because it was supported by many DVD players.
