While a video container format encapsulates video and audio tracks/streams compressed by different codecs, such as MP4, MKV, MOV, WMV, AVI, WebM, etc.įor non-tech-savvy guys, just ignore above crap. Here are some popular video codecs: H.264, HEVC, XVID, DIVX, MPEG1/2/4, VP8/9, etc. Each codec comprises of an encoder and decoder to compress and decompress the video in lossy or lossless mode.
Video codecs refers to the video compression standards implemented through some software, devices or hardware applications.
