File Formats Digital Video Explained

Common digital file formats

Part 2

Internet video intimidates a lot of people because there is so much technical jargon. It 's like an alien language. Fear not fans of video!

I've compiled this handy guide to help you wade through all this. This is the second of a multipart series that explains all the technical mumbo-jumbo you need to know to enjoy produce, share and watch video files on the Internet.

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FLASH VIDEO

Flash video, which is given the file extension. Flv is perhaps the most common format on the web today. You will see the extension. FLV video files encoded with the Adobe Flash software for playback of Adobe Flash Player. Practically everyone has seen that these are free downloads. Flash offers several videos on the Internet than any other file format.

Flash was originally a Macromedia product, but is now Adobe.

Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Reuters.com, Yahoo! Video and MySpace. Many television news operations are also using Flash Video on their websites.

FLV is probably the most common format on the Internet. . FLV gives a smaller file size after compression.

Flash video is visible on most operating systems, via the widely available Adobe Flash Player and web browser plug-in. Flash video is played in several third-party programs such as MPlayer, VLC media player, Quicktime, or any player which uses DirectShow filters such as Media Player Classic, Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center. We've left anybody out?

You can trust the fact that Flash is virtually universal.

GOOGLE RULES

. GVI is the extension for the file Google Video, a video format developed by Google and used as a proprietary video format.

Developed to solve the problems of compatibility, Google Video Player was another way to view videos from Google and works seamlessly on both Windows and Mac OS X. The Google Video Player made their own files to Google Google Video File (. GVI) media and playlist formats supported "Google Video Pointer" (. GVP) format. (More about this duo confuse you later)

Why two video formats to Google? Size. When users downloaded onto your computer, the resulting file used to be a small file. Gvp pointer rather than the full size. Gvi video files. Just as a link, the pointer to the file, when executed, recalls, and then download the video file actually default user directory. It seems that the long road, but what do I know?

As of August 17, 2007, Google Video Player has been discontinued and is no longer available for download from the Google Video site. I can not miss. The option to download videos in GVI format has been removed, the only possibility is the download for iPod / PSP (MP4 format). Guess it all just got too confusing for words.



BACK FROM OLD TO NEW

Graphics Interchange Format, with the file extension. GIF is one of the original digital still formats. It dates back to pre-historic days of CompuServe in 1987 and has since entered into widespread use on the web due to wide support and portability.

The biggest disadvantage if GIF color reproduction was poor. Many people thought that it was not appropriate for the reproduction of photographs when the brilliant color and accurate was important. And 'best suited for simpler images such as graphics or logos with solid areas of color.

GIF for images is still alone and can not handle the movement of video files.

Tagged Image File Format (abbreviated TIFF) is a container format for storing images, including photographs and line drawings. He is now owned by Adobe. Originally created by Aldus for use with what was then called "desktop publishing," TIFF is a popular format for color images and black and white. The TIFF format is widely supported by image-manipulation applications, by publishing and page layout applications, by scanning, faxing, word processing applications, optical character recognition and other.

Adobe Systems, which acquired Aldus, now holds the copyright to the TIFF specification. TIFF has not had a major upgrade since 1992, even though several Aldus / Adobe technical notes have been published with minor extensions to the format.

This is the end of Part 2 of this multi-part series on digital file formats .......