File Formats for Video (not codec)

Chose your Media Architecture

Downloaded file formats

Quicktime (.mov) from Apple

More than Video and Sounds

very open standard codec oriented (Mpeg4)

Moving Picture Experts Group MPEG (.mpeg)

1, 2, 2 Layer 3, 4 , 7, 21

MPEG defines both the file format and the codecs

Audio-Video Interleaved (.avi) from Microsoft/Intel

Quite visible today because the DivX Codec was developed initially within that architecture

Replaced by microsoft .asf

Streamed video

RealVideo (.ram) from RealNetworks

QuickTime (.mov) from Apple

open source Quicktime Streaming Server

same price whatever the number of clients

Windows Media (.asf : Active Streaming Format) from Microsoft (Widows Media Architecture)

MPEG

For More : http://stream.uen.org/medsol/digvid/html/2B_mediaarchitecture.html

For More : http://www.discreet.com/support/codec/