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CONTAINERS

Ogg - Created by the Xiph Foundation .

---See also OGM , which is a fork of ogg.

Matroska - .mkv & .mka files.

NUT - Developed by the MPlayer team.

VIDEO CODECS

X264 - H.264 (MPEG-4 part 10) implementation.

XviD - MPEG-4 part 2 codec, compatible with DivX .

Theora - Based on VP3 , part of the Ogg Project.

Dirac - Wavelet based codec created by the BBC .

Snow - Wavelet based codec from the FFmpeg project.

FFV1 - Lossless codec from the FFmpeg project.

Huffyuv - Lossless codec from BenRG.

AUDIO CODECS

FLAC - Lossless compression.

ILBC - Low bitrate voice compression.

Musepack - Lossy, high quality compression; an attempt to replicate the MP3 format.

Speex - Low bitrate compression, primarily voice.

Vorbis - Lossy, high quality compression; part of ogg project.

TEXT CODECS

(generally used for subtitles/closed captioning)

Writ .

SEE ALSO

Comparison Of Container Formats

Comparison Of Media Players

Free File Format