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Common Video Formats
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| ASF | Advanced Systems Format is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. |
| AVI | Audio Video Interleaved is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology; can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. |
| FLV | Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer. |
| MP4 | |
| MPEG | |
| MOV | |
| VOB | VOB (Video Object) is the container format in DVD-Video media; can contain digital video, digital audio, subtitles, DVD menus and navigation contents multiplexed together into a stream form. Files in VOB format may be encrypted. |
| WMV | Windows Media is a video compression format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original video format was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to RealVideo. |