Curious about the most popular and best video formats used in 2021? Check out the review here!
Just like image file formats, video formats now have very diverse types and of course each have their own advantages and disadvantages.
Therefore, for those of you who like to download and watch streaming videos/movies, choosing the best video extension format that suits your taste is definitely an important thing for you to know!
So, so you won't be disappointed with the quality of the video you choose, here Jaka will provide information about various video formats and their advantages and disadvantages. Complete from video formats for PC to smartphones!
1. AVI
Surely you know this one video extension! AVI or Audio Video Interleave become one of the most popular file formats, because it is often used as a movie and video format widely through various media.
AVI is also often used as a default file format for handycam and digital cameras in general. The format created by Microsoft is also famous because it is often combined with codecs such as DivX and XVID,
But for those of you who show videos with codecs as mentioned, don't forget to install the codec reader file first, okay?
Excess:
- Has a large selection of compression types (codecs)
- Sharper image quality than ASF
Deficiency:
- Limited image resolution
- Quality depends on the type of compression
- Can't make full motion videos
2. MP4
It is also one of the most popular video file formats in the world. YouTube is a website that makes MP4 even more successful.
This happens because this popular video player platform uses the MP4 extension as the standard file format for every video they provide.
Please note that YouTube used to use FLV as its video extension, however, since they moved to an HTML5 video player, then flash began to be abandoned and FLV became a memory.
Excess:
- Can be played in various platform
- Video files can be integrated with 3D graphics, menus/user navigation options, and other interactive features
- Can compress video and audio with a very small size
Deficiency:
- High compression level can make audio and video quality poor
- Sometimes the audio doesn't sync with the video
3. MPG
MPG or MPEG was once the ruler of all videos in your home, you know. Back when the VCD era was still mushrooming in Indonesia, every file .DAT which is on the VCD is a video that has the MPEG 1 format.
Besides VCD, MPG is also often found on DVD and even Blu-Ray as an extension default videos that are in it.
With the disappearance of the glorious era of VCD around the world including Indonesia, this one video format is slowly disappearing.
Excess:
- Can produce high quality videos
- Video format compatible with almost all web browsers
- Support on multiple platforms
Deficiency:
- Large file size
- Due to its large size, it usually takes a long time to open the file
4. 3GP
Hey, who's smiling to themselves seeing the video format above? Well, 3GP and he became super famous in Indonesia because in the early 2000s, this video file format became a file format default for cell phones.
3GP is specifically optimized as a small video extension, especially from mobile phones, especially in terms of the resulting file size.
What makes it interesting is that 3GP is often misused on the internet because a lot of amateur porn videos (especially from Indonesia) are recorded using mobile phones and produce videos in the 3GP format.
Usually you get it on a series of illegal sites, one of which is a porn site. Confess, gang!
Excess:
- Small file size
Deficiency:
- Image quality is not good
- Low resolution
5. WEBM
For those of you who don't know, WEBM has now also become one of the video file formats that is starting to become famous on the internet. It uses the format coding VP8/VP9 video and Vorbis or Opus audio as standard codecs.
For Indonesian sites, maybe not many people use WebM as a video file format. However, out there since the presence of HTML5, WebM is increasingly mushrooming as a standard media file, be it for forum sites to news sites.
Similar to MKV, which ApkVenue will discuss next, WebM has a container called Matroska. Who is still using this one video format?
Excess:
- Can play videos with high quality and good performance
Deficiency:
- WEBM video format cannot be played on some devices portable
- Not all web browsers support playing videos with this format
6. MKV
Who here likes to download movies via Torrent or Ganool? You must be familiar with MKV format videos.
Matroska Video has become a medium that is loved by film providers on the internet because it is flexible and can store many videos, audios, images, or even files. subtitles in the same video file.
It may be the same as other popular extensions such as AVI and MP4, but Matroska is very open in terms of specifications and it is part of the open source software so easy to modify.
However, because the file size is generally large, you need to compress the video without reducing the quality, especially if you want to open the file on a smartphone.
Excess:
- Can add metadata without the need re-writing whole file
- Easy to access
- Very flexible; Can save many audio and video coding formats
Deficiency:
- Large file size
- Sometimes the MKV format file is easily damaged because malware or bugs
7. GIFV
In this era of rapidly growing information technology, GIFV has also become one of the most popular video formats among cyberspace users, along with WEBM.
If WEBM is more often used for short videos accompanied by sound, GIFV is used instead of the GIF extension which is known to be inefficient and has a very wasteful file size.
GIFV is known as an extension that is very economical, but easy to use, silent, and convenient to replay (loop like GIFs). One of the big sites that make GIFV the format default is 9GAG.
Excess:
- File size is generally small
- Can be used to create simple animations
Deficiency:
- Not informative because it's silent
- Low resolution
- Data storage on images is limited
8. WMV
Who was using computers when Windows Movie Maker and Metacafe were still in power? Yes, it was through these two products that WMV became famous.
This extension created specifically for Windows from its name alone describes everything, Windows Media Video or WMV for short.
Easy to use and widely supported by Windows makes this video format widely used since Windows XP plays an important role in the world of operating systems.
Excess:
- Small file size
- The duration of loading video playback is short
Deficiency:
- Only playable on Windows platform
9. FLV
For those of you who used to download videos on YouTube in the 2010s, you must be familiar with the FLV format. This format is also commonly found in some movies or anime that you watch.
The quality itself can be said to be good, really, with a capacity that is not so large and can be played on an old PC at that time.
Another plus, if the file size is large, the quality will definitely get better. Currently, due to video expansion using the MP4 format, the FLV format itself is increasingly rare.
Excess:
- Image quality is quite good
- Can be played on old PC
Deficiency:
- Creating Flash video content is very time consuming
- Web pages that have Flash video content generally make the loading process take longer
10. DAT
For the millennial generation, especially early computer users in 2000 to early 2010, you must be familiar with the DAT format.
DAT itself is a file extension commonly found on VCDs. Usually this format still has something to do with MPEG.
Although it has good quality, this type of video file cannot be played on the default Android video player. Really sad!
Excess:
- Image quality is quite good
Deficiency:
- Does not support playback on multiple platforms
- Must go through the process convert so that it can be played
Those are the various video formats along with their advantages and disadvantages which are the most popular widely used in the technology world. Whether it's as a video medium offline until streaming Through the internet.
So which video format do you use most often? Don't forget to share your opinion in the comments column below.
