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3GP

Mobile video format designed for 3G phones. Small file sizes, low quality. Still used in some legacy

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Animated GIF

Legacy format for simple animations. Limited to 256 colors. Widely used for memes and short loops on

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AVI

Legacy format by Microsoft. Large file sizes, wide compatibility. Still used in professional and arc

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AVIF

Modern image format based on AV1 codec. Excellent compression with HDR support. Growing web adoption

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CineForm

Visually lossless intermediate codec. Supports HDR and high bit depths. Popular in film production.

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DNxHD

Professional intermediate codec by Avid. Visually lossless. Used in broadcast and post-production ed

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DVR-MS

Microsoft digital video recording format. Used by Windows Media Center for recording TV. Limited cro

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FLV

Adobe Flash Video format. Once dominant for web streaming. Now largely deprecated in favor of MP4 an

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HEIF / HEIC

High-Efficiency Image Format. Used by Apple for photos. Can contain image sequences with HEVC compre

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MKV

Open-source container supporting virtually any codec. Popular for HD video and multi-track content (

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MOV

Apple QuickTime format. Common in professional video production (Final Cut Pro). Supports high-quali

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MP4

Most widely compatible video format. Standard for web, mobile, and streaming. Uses H.264 or H.265 vi

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MPEG-1

Early digital video standard. Used in Video CD (VCD). Low quality by modern standards. Rarely used t

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MPEG-2

Broadcast standard for DVD and digital TV. Good quality at moderate bitrates. Being phased out for w

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MXF

Professional broadcast container format. Supports multiple audio/video tracks and rich metadata. Ind

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OGV (Ogg)

Open-source multimedia container. Used with Theora video and Vorbis audio. Free format without paten

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ProRes

Professional post-production codec by Apple. High quality, large file sizes. Standard in video editi

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WebM

Royalty-free format designed for the web. Developed by Google. Uses VP8, VP9, or AV1 codec with Opus