In what format to save the video?

Even if you do not ever createvideo on a PC, and just an amateur to watch movies and stuff on your computer, you still have to face the problem, in which format to save the video?

Video Formats

Today, there are many video formats, they can easily get confused. What codec and in which player to play? Let's try to understand.

Manufacturers are fighting endlessly for leadership in the field of digital technology, and the end user at this time is confused in a variety of formats.

Flash Video (FLV) is intended forstreaming video, in other words, the video can be viewed directly in the browser, and it can be saved to a PC, and then played in one of the players that support this format.
Another popular format is MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4). It is intended for packaging digital video and audio stream, accompanying subtitles, as well as posters, metadata, etc. Like many modern media containers, they provide the possibility of streaming from the Internet. In addition, the file transmits metadata containing information that is necessary for broadcasting. With the help of the container, you can pack several video and audio streams. The format is easily played on a variety of players. The main difference from FLV is a higher quality.
AVI (Audio Video Interleave). The format allows, without conversion to other formats, to watch the video not only on the computer, but also on an ordinary video player.
The MKV format is a special audio-videoa container that is similar to AVI, it allows you to store a lot of information. MKV is an open project "Matryoshka" (Matroska), which was created to combine most standards of multimedia containers on a PC. Feature - open source code, which allows you to perfect it absolutely any programmer. The prevalence of the MKV format is easily explained by the predominance of additional parameters and functions, in comparison with AVI. Matroska contains a video track (MKV), as well as an audio track (MKA) plus a subtitle track (MKS) and a huge amount of service information that allows you to create menus (like on DVD), manage timings and so on.

Generally video formats there are many, but still - in what format to save the video? The most common format is MKV, that is, it is in it and it is worth saving video on your PC.