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  2. Digital video - Wikipedia

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    Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data. This is in contrast to analog video, which represents moving visual images in the form of analog signals. Digital video comprises a series of digital images displayed in rapid succession, usually at 24, 25, 30, or 60 frames per second.

  3. VLC media player - Wikipedia

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    VLC media player. VLC media player (previously the VideoLAN Client and commonly known as simply VLC) is a free and open-source, portable, cross-platform media player software and streaming media server developed by the VideoLAN project. VLC is available for desktop operating systems and mobile platforms, such as Android, iOS and iPadOS.

  4. DVD - Wikipedia

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    DVD-Video is a standard for distributing video/audio content on DVD media. The format went on sale in Japan on November 1, 1996, [ 4 ] in the United States on March 24, 1997, to line up with the 69th Academy Awards that day; [ 6 ] in Canada, Central America, and Indonesia later in 1997; and in Europe, [ 8 ] Australia, and Africa in 1998.

  5. Video file format - Wikipedia

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    Video file format. A video file format is a type of file format for storing digital video data on a computer system. Video is almost always stored using lossy compression to reduce the file size. A video file normally consists of a container (e.g. in the Matroska format) containing visual (video without audio) data in a video coding format (e.g ...

  6. Video - Wikipedia

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    Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. [ 1 ] Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) systems, which, in turn, were replaced by flat-panel displays of several types.

  7. Streaming media - Wikipedia

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    Streaming media refers to multimedia for playback using an offline or online media player that is delivered through a network.Media is transferred in a "stream" of packets from a server to a client and is rendered in real-time; [1] this contrasts with file downloading, a process in which the end-user obtains an entire media file before consuming the content.

  8. MP4 file format - Wikipedia

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    MPEG-4 Part 14, or MP4, is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows streaming over the Internet.

  9. Windows Media Video - Wikipedia

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    Windows Media Video (WMV) is the most recognized video compression format within the WMV family. Usage of the term WMV often refers to the Microsoft Windows Media Video format only. Its main competitors are MPEG-4 AVC, AVS, RealVideo, and MPEG-4 ASP. The first version of the format, WMV 7, was introduced in 1999, and was built upon Microsoft's ...