Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A video file format is a standard of encoding video, audio and some auxiliary informations into a file. In contrast to audio and image formats, most video file formats allow a lot of codecs, both audio and video, to be used. Auxiliary information often includes: data required for correct synchronization between audio and video subtitles Popular video file formats and codecs that can be used with them are (some of them can be also used with only audio): AVI XviD DivX FFMPEG Indeo Cinepak Windows Media Matroska XviD DivX FFMPEG Ogg OGM XviD DivX FFMPEG ASF Windows Media WMV Windows Media MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 MP4 (MPEG4) XviD DivX FFMPEG QuickTime (MOV) Sorenson Cinepak RealMedia (RM) RealVideo Professional video file formats: MXF Note: DivX and XviD are basically using standard MPEG4 compression. See also: Video codecs Audio codecs Video Tape Formats This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.