Plus how to convert between formats
Video file formats – MP4, MOV, MKV
You have plenty of options for exporting a video editing project, ripping video discs, or converting a batch of video files into a single format. MP4 and MKV are two of the most popular video file formats, but how they differ from each other isn’t immediately obvious.
If you're in doubt about which version is best for your needs or which version of a file to download, there are a few important things you should know.
Matroska Multimedia Container (MKV) was developed to replace the AVI format. The term "container" is important and means that Matroska Video is simply a container for various video and audio codec formats. A "codec" (short for coder/decoder) is an algorithm that describes how video and audio data should be represented. Different codecs have different degrees of quality loss and size compression.
