* AAF (mostly intended to hold edit decisions and rendering information, but can also contain compressed media essence)
* 3GP — the most common video format for cell phones
* GIF — Animated GIF (simple animation; until recently often avoided because of patent problems)
* ASF (ASF is a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used; MPEG-4 is common. Video in ASF-containers is also called Windows Media Video (WMV))
* AVCHD - Advanced Video Codec High Definition
* AVI — (AVI is a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used;
* CAM — An aMSN webcam log file.
* DAT — (DAT is a Video standard data file; Automatically created when we attempted to burn as video file on the CD)
* MPEG-1 and a variant of MPEG-4 (DivX/Xvid) are common)
* DSH
* FLV (*.flv) A video file encoded to run in a flash animation.
* M1V MPEG-1 Video file
* M2V MPEG-2 Video file
* SWF — Macromedia Flash (.swf for viewing, FLA — Macromedia Flash for producing)
* FLR — A text file which contains scripts extracted from SWF by a free ActionScript decompiler named FLARE
* MKV — Matroska (*.mkv) (Matroska is a container format, which enables any video format such as MPEG-4 or DivX/XviD to be used along with other content such as subtitles and detailed meta information)
* WRAP — MediaForge (*.wrap)
* MNG (mainly simple animation containing PNG and JPEG objects, often somewhat more complex than animated GIF)
* MOV (QuickTime, a container format, which enables any form of compression to be used; Sorenson codec is the most common. QTCH is the filetype for cached video and audio streams.)
* MPEG (.mpeg, .mpg, .mpe)
* MPEG-4, shortened "MP4", a popular video format most often used for Sony's PlayStation Portable and Apple's iPod.
* MXF Material Exchange Format is a standardized wrapper format for audio/visual material developed by SMPTE
* NSV Nullsoft Streaming Video is a media container designed for streaming video content over the internet.
* OGM (OGM is a container format created so that Ogg Vorbis could be used for the audio of a video as this could not be done with AVI)
* Tarkin (Ogg project, all Tarkin files are Ogg files)
* Theora (Ogg project, all Theora files are Ogg files)
* RM — RealMedia
* SVI Samsung video format for portable players
* SMI SAMI Caption file. (HTML like subtitle for movie files)
* WMV Windows Media Video (See ASF)
* DivX Most commonly using the .avi or the .divx container
* Xvid Most commonly using the .avi container
* MP2 (MPEG Layer 2)
* MP3 (MPEG Layer 3)
* Speex (Ogg project, specialized for voice, low bitrates)
* Vorbis (Ogg project, free and similar in principle to MP3)
* GSM (GSM Full Rate, originally developed for use in mobile phones)
* WMA — Windows Media Audio (.WMA)
* AAC (.m4a, .mp4, .m4p, .aac) — Advanced Audio Coding (usually in an MPEG-4 container)
* MPC — Musepack
* VQF — Yamaha TwinVQ
* RealAudio (RA, RM)
* OTS Audio File (similar to MP3, with more data stored in the file and slightly better compression; designed for use with OtsLabs' OtsAV)
* SWA — Macromedia Shockwave Audio (Same compression as MP3 with additional header information specific to Macromedia Director — see What is the difference between MP3 and SWA files?)
* VOX — Dialogic ADPCM Low Sample Rate Digitized Voice (VOX)
* VOC — Creative Labs Soundblaster Creative Voice 8-bit & 16-bit (VOC)
* DWD — DiamondWare Digitized (DWD)
* SMP — Turtlebeach SampleVision (SMP)
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