Container format, the Glossary

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1. 93 relations: Adobe Inc., Advanced Systems Format, Apple Inc., Archive file, Audio coding format, Audio Interchange File Format, Audio Video Interleave, AV1, Bit slip, Blu-ray, Codec, Comparison of audio coding formats, Comparison of video codecs, Comparison of video container formats, Computer file, Computer Graphics Metafile, Computer program, CorelDRAW, Cross-platform software, DivX, DVD-Video, DVR-MS, Dynamic-link library, Electronic program guide, Encapsulated PostScript, File format, FITS, Flash Video, Forward compatibility, General Exchange Format, Interchange File Format, ISO base media file format, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG File Interchange Format, JPEG Network Graphics, List of codecs, List of open-source codecs, Mac (computer), MacOS, Magic number (programming), Material Exchange Format, Matroska, Metadata, Microsoft Windows, Modular design, MP4 file format, MPEG elementary stream, MPEG program stream, MPEG transport stream, ... Expand index (43 more) »

2. Computer files
3. Digital container formats
4. Lists of file formats

Adobe Inc.

Adobe Inc., formerly Adobe Systems Incorporated, is an American computer software company based in San Jose, California.

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Advanced Systems Format

Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. Container format and Advanced Systems Format are digital container formats.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Archive file

In computing, an archive file is a computer file that is composed of one or more files along with metadata. Container format and archive file are computer files.

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Audio coding format

An audio coding format (or sometimes audio compression format) is a content representation format for storage or transmission of digital audio (such as in digital television, digital radio and in audio and video files).

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Audio Interchange File Format

Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. Container format and audio Interchange File Format are digital container formats.

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Audio Video Interleave

Audio Video Interleave (also Audio Video Interleaved and known by its initials and filename extension AVI, usually pronounced) is a proprietary multimedia container format and Windows standard introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows software. Container format and Audio Video Interleave are digital container formats.

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AV1

AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) is an open, royalty-free video coding format initially designed for video transmissions over the Internet. Container format and AV1 are film and video technology.

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Bit slip

In digital transmission, bit slip is the loss or gain of a bit or bits, caused by clock driftvariations in the respective clock rates of the transmitting and receiving devices.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc or BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format designed to supersede the DVD format.

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Codec

A codec is a device or computer program that encodes or decodes a data stream or signal.

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Comparison of audio coding formats

The following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of audio coding formats.

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Comparison of video codecs

Α video codec is software or a device that provides encoding and decoding for digital video, and which may or may not include the use of video compression and/or decompression.

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Comparison of video container formats

These tables compare features of multimedia container formats, most often used for storing or streaming digital video or digital audio content. Container format and Comparison of video container formats are digital container formats.

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Computer file

In computing, a computer file is a resource for recording data on a computer storage device, primarily identified by its filename. Container format and computer file are computer files.

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Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) is a free and open international standard file format for 2D vector graphics, raster graphics, and text, and is defined by ISO/IEC 8632.

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Computer program

A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to execute.

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CorelDRAW

CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Alludo (formerly Corel Corporation).

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Cross-platform software

In computing, cross-platform software (also called multi-platform software, platform-agnostic software, or platform-independent software) is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms.

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DivX

DivX is a brand of video codec products developed by DivX, LLC. Container format and DivX are digital container formats.

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DVD-Video

DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVDs.

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DVR-MS

DVR-MS (Microsoft Digital Video Recording) is a proprietary video and audio file container format, developed by Microsoft used for storing TV content recorded by Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Container format and DVR-MS are computer file formats.

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Dynamic-link library

A dynamic-link library (DLL) is a shared library in the Microsoft Windows or OS/2 operating system. Container format and dynamic-link library are computer file formats.

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Electronic program guide

Electronic programming guides (EPGs) and interactive programming guides (IPGs) are menu-based systems that provide users of television, radio, and other media applications with continuously updated menus that display scheduling information for current and upcoming broadcast programming (most commonly, TV listings).

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Encapsulated PostScript

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) is a Document Structuring Convention (DSC) conforming PostScript document format usable as a graphics file format.

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File format

A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. Container format and file format are computer file formats.

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FITS

Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) is an open standard defining a digital file format useful for storage, transmission and processing of data: formatted as multi-dimensional arrays (for example a 2D image), or tables.

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Flash Video

Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver digital video content (e.g., TV shows, movies, etc.) over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer. Container format and Flash Video are digital container formats.

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Forward compatibility

Forward compatibility or upward compatibility is a design characteristic that allows a system to accept input intended for a later version of itself.

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General Exchange Format

General eXchange Format (GXF) is a file exchange format for the transfer of simple and compound clips between television program storage systems. Container format and General Exchange Format are computer file formats and film and video technology.

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Interchange File Format

Interchange File Format (IFF) is a generic digital container file format originally introduced by Electronic Arts (in cooperation with Commodore) in 1985 to facilitate transfer of data between software produced by different companies. Container format and Interchange File Format are computer file formats.

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The ISO base media file format (ISOBMFF) is a container file format that defines a general structure for files that contain time-based multimedia data such as video and audio. Container format and ISO base media file format are digital container formats.

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JPEG

JPEG (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.

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JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system.

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JPEG File Interchange Format

The JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) is an image file format standard published as ITU-T Recommendation T.871 and ISO/IEC 10918-5.

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JPEG Network Graphics

JPEG Network Graphics (JNG) is a JPEG-based graphics file format which is closely related to PNG: it uses the PNG file structure (with a different signature) as a container format to wrap JPEG-encoded image data.

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List of codecs

The following is a list of compression formats and related codecs.

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List of open-source codecs

This is a listing of open-source codecs—that is, open-source software implementations of audio or video coding formats.

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Mac (computer)

Mac, short for Macintosh (its official name until 1999), is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Magic number (programming)

In computer programming, a magic number is any of the following.

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Material Exchange Format

Material Exchange Format (MXF) is a container format for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards. Container format and Material Exchange Format are computer file formats and film and video technology.

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Matroska

Matroska is a project to create a container format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file. Container format and Matroska are digital container formats.

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Metadata (or metainformation) is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data itself, such as the text of a message or the image itself.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Modular design

Modular design, or modularity in design, is a design principle that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules (such as modular process skids), which can be independently created, modified, replaced, or exchanged with other modules or between different systems.

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MP4 file format

MPEG-4 Part 14, or MP4, is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Container format and MP4 file format are digital container formats.

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MPEG elementary stream

An elementary stream (ES) as defined by the MPEG communication protocol is usually the output of an audio encoder or video encoder.

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MPEG program stream

Program stream (PS or MPEG-PS) is a container format for multiplexing digital audio, video and more. Container format and MPEG program stream are digital container formats.

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MPEG transport stream

MPEG transport stream (MPEG-TS, MTS) or simply transport stream (TS) is a standard digital container format for transmission and storage of audio, video, and Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) data. Container format and MPEG transport stream are digital container formats.

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MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats.

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Multiple-image Network Graphics

Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) is a graphics file format published in 2001 for animated images.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. Container format and Ogg are digital container formats.

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Open standard

An open standard is a standard that is openly accessible and usable by anyone.

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Opus (audio format)

Opus is a lossy audio coding format developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed to efficiently code speech and general audio in a single format, while remaining low-latency enough for real-time interactive communication and low-complexity enough for low-end embedded processors.

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PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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PICT

PICT is a graphics file format introduced on the original Apple Macintosh computer as its standard metafile format.

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PNG

Portable Network Graphics (PNG, officially pronounced, colloquially pronounced) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is software that grants its creator, publisher, or other rightsholder or rightsholder partner a legal monopoly by modern copyright and intellectual property law to exclude the recipient from freely sharing the software or modifying it, and—in some cases, as is the case with some patent-encumbered and EULA-bound software—from making use of the software on their own, thereby restricting their freedoms.

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QuickTime

QuickTime is a discontinued extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats.

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QuickTime File Format

QuickTime File Format (QTFF) is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework. Container format and QuickTime File Format are digital container formats.

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RatDVD

RatDVD (originally stylized "ratDVD") is the name of a proprietary container format for digital video, developed by Peter Jensen and a group of Russian and Danish university students.

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RealAudio

RealAudio, also spelled Real Audio, is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995.

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RealMedia is a proprietary multimedia container format created by RealNetworks with the filename extension. Container format and RealMedia are digital container formats.

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RealVideo

RealVideo, also spelled as Real Video, is a suite of proprietary video compression formats developed by RealNetworks — the specific format changes with the version.

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Resource Interchange File Format

Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) is a generic file container format for storing data in tagged chunks. Container format and Resource Interchange File Format are computer file formats.

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Rich Text Format

) As an example, the following RTF code would be rendered as follows: This is some bold text. Container format and Rich Text Format are computer file formats.

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Serial communication

In telecommunication and data transmission, serial communication is the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus.

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Serialization

In computing, serialization (or serialisation) is the process of translating a data structure or object state into a format that can be stored (e.g. files in secondary storage devices, data buffers in primary storage devices) or transmitted (e.g. data streams over computer networks) and reconstructed later (possibly in a different computer environment).

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Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network. Container format and Streaming media are film and video technology.

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Subtitles

Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media.

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SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an XML-based vector image format for defining two-dimensional graphics, having support for interactivity and animation. Container format and SVG are computer file formats.

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In information systems, a tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, multimedia, database record, or computer file).

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Theora

Theora is a free lossy video compression format.

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TIFF

Tag Image File Format or Tagged Image File Format, commonly known by the abbreviations TIFF or TIF, is an image file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers.

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Variable bitrate

Variable bitrate (VBR) is a term used in telecommunications and computing that relates to the bitrate used in sound or video encoding.

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Variable frame rate

Variable frame rate (or VFR) is a term in video compression for a feature supported by some container formats which allows for the frame rate to change actively during video playback, or to drop the idea of frame rate completely and set an individual timecode for each frame. Container format and Variable frame rate are film and video technology.

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Video coding format

A video coding format (or sometimes video compression format) is a content representation format of digital video content, such as in a data file or bitstream.

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Video compression picture types

In the field of video compression a video frame is compressed using different algorithms with different advantages and disadvantages, centered mainly around amount of data compression.

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VOB

VOB (for video object) is the container format in DVD-Video media. Container format and VOB are digital container formats.

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Vorbis

Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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VP8

VP8 is an open and royalty-free video compression format released by On2 Technologies in 2008.

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VP9

VP9 is an open and royalty-free video coding format developed by Google. Container format and VP9 are film and video technology.

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WAV

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced or) is an audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computers. Container format and WAV are digital container formats.

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WebM

WebM is an audiovisual media file format.

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Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft.

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Windows Media Video (WMV) is a series of video codecs and their corresponding video coding formats developed by Microsoft.

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Windows Metafile (WMF) is an image file format originally designed for Microsoft Windows in the 1990s.

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X.690

X.690 is an ITU-T standard specifying several ASN.1 encoding formats.

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Xiph.Org Foundation

Xiph.Org Foundation is a nonprofit organization that produces free multimedia formats and software tools.

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XMF

XMF (Extensible Music Format) is a tree-based digital container format used to bundle music-oriented content, such as a MIDI file and optionally the sounds it uses, liner notes or other content grouped by language-codes.

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ZIP (file format)

ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression.

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3GP and 3G2

3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. Container format and 3GP and 3G2 are computer file formats and digital container formats.

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See also

Computer files

• .wps
• ANIM
• Archive file
• BANG file
• Changelog
• Computer file
• Computer file formats
• Container format
• Data file
• Data set (IBM mainframe)
• End-of-file
• File hosting
• File managers
• File sharing
• File signature
• File size
• File verification
• Filename extension
• Filename mangling
• Filenames
• Filespec
• Fully qualified name
• Grid file
• IGC (file format)
• JHOVE
• MPEG
• Managed file transfer
• Proxy auto-config
• Scratch space
• Sparse file
• System file
• Text files
• Zero-byte file

Digital container formats

• 3GP and 3G2
• ANIM
• Adobe Captivate
• Advanced Systems Format
• AnIML
• Annodex
• Au file format
• Audio Interchange File Format
• Audio Video Interleave
• Audio file format
• Bink Video
• CDXL
• Comparison of video container formats
• Compound File Binary Format
• Container format
• Core Audio Format
• Dialogic ADPCM
• DivX
• Flash Video
• ISO base media file format
• ITunes LP
• M4V
• MP4 file format
• MPEG
• MPEG media transport
• MPEG program stream
• MPEG transport stream
• MPEG-7
• MSSTYLES
• MVI
• Matroska
• Ogg
• QuickTime File Format
• RMVB
• RealMedia
• SNP file format
• Screencast
• Smacker video
• VOB
• WAV
• WMA Convert

Lists of file formats

• Container format
• Image file format
• List of Microsoft Office filename extensions
• List of RISC OS filetypes
• List of archive formats
• List of file formats
• List of filename extensions
• List of filename extensions (0–9)
• List of filename extensions (A–E)
• List of filename extensions (F–L)
• List of filename extensions (M–R)
• List of filename extensions (S–Z)

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_format

Also known as Container file format, Container format (computing), Container format (digital), Digital container format, Hybrid file, Media container, Metafile, Multimedia container format, Video container.

, MPEG-4, Multiple-image Network Graphics, Ogg, Open standard, Opus (audio format), PDF, PICT, PNG, Proprietary software, QuickTime, QuickTime File Format, RatDVD, RealAudio, RealMedia, RealVideo, Resource Interchange File Format, Rich Text Format, Serial communication, Serialization, Streaming media, Subtitles, SVG, Tag (metadata), Theora, TIFF, Variable bitrate, Variable frame rate, Video coding format, Video compression picture types, VOB, Vorbis, VP8, VP9, WAV, WebM, Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video, Windows Metafile, X.690, Xiph.Org Foundation, XMF, ZIP (file format), 3GP and 3G2.