http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Giveaway of the Day Forums Topic: What are the differences in the various audio and video modes en Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:29:28 +0000 http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3156#post-26998 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:01:25 +0000 Jaddis 26998@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Bigun,</p> <p>Here are some links I found after doing a quick Google search. Hope they help answer your questions. </p> <p><a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/tbuehler/video/extensions.html" rel="nofollow">http://people.csail.mit.edu/tbuehler/video/extensions.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_file_format</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.filezed.com/file-types/1/movie-video-multimedia-files.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.filezed.com/file-types/1/movie-video-multimedia-files.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_file_formats" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_file_formats</a> </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3156#post-26991 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:51:26 +0000 goodgotd 26991@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>Uhhh.. Y'know, I'm not sure. about a list. though <a href="http://www.afterdawn.com/glossary/">Afterdawn's Glossary</a> might be a good start.</p> <p>MP3 is a lossy (as opposed to FLAC, which does not lose quality when compressing) audio compression format- I think it's MPEG-1 audio layer III technically. MPEG-4 is a lossy video compression format. so is MPEG-2, which compresses less and loses less.</p> <p>AVI, MKV, VOB, etc. are container files which usually have at least one video and one audio stream twined together in different 'standard' ways.</p> <p>Flash, Quicktime, and the flavors of RealMedia are proprietary formats. DivX too, after version 4- XviD is it's free twin. </p> http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/3156#post-26961 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:49:20 +0000 Bigun 26961@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <p>I have downloaded a number of media files such as MP3 and MP4, avi, flash, etc. I also have numerous programs that convert between modes.</p> <p>Where can I find a simple primer to educate me in the how and why for the various multimedia modes? </p>