{"id":2050,"date":"2020-10-03T19:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-03T19:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mp4gain.com\/mp4gain\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2020-10-03T19:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T19:23:38","slug":"avi-mp4-or-wmv-video-which-is-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mp4gain.com\/mp4gain\/avi-mp4-or-wmv-video-which-is-better\/","title":{"rendered":"AVI, MP4 or WMV video: which is better?"},"content":{"rendered":"

AVI, MP4 or WMV video: which is better?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Today we are going to act as devil’s advocate and conduct research with passion and using special media against the three most popular video formats: AVI, MP4 and WMV.<\/p>\n

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To begin with, it is useful to clarify concepts about formats. In general, a video file format is a container that contains data and codecs, that is, programs for compressing and retrieving information.<\/p>\n

A container is like a toolbox. Depending on the internal volume and available compartments, a tool kit can contain certain instruments, in one quantity or another. That is, in a small and ill-conceived suitcase, except for a wrench and a bottle of kefir, nothing will fit.
\nCodecs are information processing tools. There are codecs with a high compression ratio, but with lower quality of the output content. Yes codecs with less compression and higher image quality.
\nAs you can imagine, different codecs can be put into a container if so provided by the container’s own format.<\/p>\n

An AVI container can contain many audio streams and different types of codecs for video compression.
\nThe MP4 container has been specially designed for streaming videos online. It also supports multiple audio channels.
\nThe WMV container is a product of Microsoft Corporation, which is always trying to create its own alternative to popular products. In many respects, the properties are similar to the other two, but with a higher compression ratio.
\nWe won’t bore you with tables of numbers, but we will immediately inform you of the benchmark results in simple human words.<\/p>\n

Comparison of the three video formats by consumer properties
\nOverall, based on the test results, it was clear that we wasted time on these tests. Everything turned out to be roughly the same, as could be speculatively predicted based on the theoretical descriptions of these three video formats on Wikipedia.<\/p>\n

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