YouTube Video Codecs

1. Video Channel Presentation
4.2
YouTube Video
Codecs

2. Video Channel Presentation
MOV
Compatible With Windows And
Macintosh Platforms.
Moving Picture Experts Group
Compression of audio and visual
(VA) data.
MP4
Part of the MPEG4 family.
Commonly used file format for
portable media players.
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Audio-Video Interleaved
Used to store audio and video for
synchronous playback digitally.
Microsoft's Windows Media Video
Based on the Microsoft advanced systems
(ASF) container, compressed and encoded
with Microsoft's windows media video
(WMV)
The Program Stream
Multiplexing digital audio and
video. It is most used for DVDs
and HD DVDs.

3. Video Channel Presentation
Flash Video
Used by adobe to deliver
synchronized audio and video
content.
3rd Generation Partnership Project
Allow 3G cell phones to play,
record, view, and send multimedia
files via the internet.
WebM file format
• Royalty-free alternative for HTML5
• Video streams (VP8 or VP9 codec)
compressed
• Audio streams (VORBIS or OPUS
codec) compressed
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Digital Nonlinear Extensible High
Resolution
For use with screen resolutions above
1080p.
ProRes by Apple
Affordable to edit full-frame, 10-bit,
4:2:2, and 4:4:4:4 high-definition (HD),
2K, 4K, 5K, and larger video sources.
CineForm by GoPro
High-resolution footage with minimal
loss in quality even after multiple
encodes.

4. Video Channel Presentation
High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)
or h265
• Part of the MPEG-H project.
• It can handle resolutions of up to
8192×4320 pixels, including 8K
UHD. After AVC, it is the second
most used video coding format in
2019.
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