Video Files types, Codec, and Containers

What is a Codec?

• A file format containing video files, sound files and meta data

• Compress data (and decompress it when playing it back) so that you can store and transmit files with a smaller file size

• A program to aid a video editor

• A coding procedure for storing audio files in a video capturing device

What is a Container?

• Is also referred as a File Format

• Is a standard on how a video is encoded

• A video storage system for web streaming purposes

• Contains: codecs, sound files and subtitles

Best Video Codecs for Web Streaming Purposes

• MPEG - Dash

• H.264

• H.262

• VP9

Types of Video Containers

• AVI

• MP3

• MP4

• H.264

• HDV

This is a video file extension you may commonly see.

• .mov, .avi, .mp4
• .mp3, .wav
• .doc, .docx, 
• .jpg, .gif, .png

What file type is an MP4?

• Graphic

• Sound

• Video

• Animation

What file type is an mov?

• Graphic

• Sound

• Video

• Animation

What file type is a MOV?

• Graphic

• Sound

• Video

• Animation

Most popular devices used to capture video

• Web cam

• Mobile phone camera

• Digital Camera

• DSLR

• all the above

HD stands for:

• Higher Resolution Data

• High Definition

• Hard Data