Codecs For Videos

A video codec is an electronic circuit or software that compresses or decompresses digital video. It converts raw (uncompressed) digital video to a compressed format or vice-versa.

Some codecs are following:-

MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group)

- It is one of the biggest families in video codec, and it is the most common video format.

- The MPG, MPE, MPA, M15, M1V, MP2 etc. are all from this family.

DivX

-This video encoding technology can be said produced for DVD, which works with a certain type of MPEG-4 file, and was often used to rip DVDs in the pre-HD era.

-Most of the DivX videos use avi file extension, of course, DivX and Div extension.

XviD

- It is an open source version of DivX, popular among movie pirates.

- In general, as long as you install the Xvid decoder, your machine will be able to play all DivX media files.

- Most use Xvid encoded files to avi extension.

X264

- It compresses H.264 videos (Also known as MPEG-4 AVC), and is very popular for high definition videos.