Last month we tried some MPEG players, including aKtion, gmpeg, gxanim, MPlayer, plaympeg, XAnim, xine and Xtheater. We also looked at the Be operating system in order to compare its video ...

Today we're talking about file formats again and the differentiation between containers and their contents. If you have ever felt that AVI (or MPEG, or MXF) files don't offer the same picture quality ...

Playing AVI files in your browser requires that you have the right codecs and Firefox plugins – without those, you're only going to get the message that Firefox is ...

DVD Decrypter can convert DVD videos into Audio Video Interleave files with help from another converter program. The DVD improved home video picture quality standards, but it still requires a physical ...

MJPEG is a compressed format, but it's for capturing (you wouldn't distribute an MJPEG file to end users). You generally will need to convert it to some flavor of MPEG, QuickTime, etc.

The basic operations that this tool offers are Cutting, i.e., selecting a portion of a large video and ‘cut and save it’ under a different file. For example, if you’re recording a TV show, you can use ...