The world of video formats can be pretty confusing, but there are only a few things you really need to know. First, it's important to note that a video format is more than just its file extension.

The word Codec is an acronym of the words compressor and decompressor. Codecs are a program that compresses a video and later helps to decode it. So if you receive an ...

I recently recieved some mkv files from a friend and tried to play them using windows media player classic (the newest version) and it wouldnt play. So i downloaded the matroska full pack from their ...

Having read up on containers from Monty's blog: Matroska is good for progressive downloading, which is enough for the YouTube use case. WebM requires an index as the ...