How to download Embedded Media Files from websites to your Computer?

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There are already over 160 Video file formats. As more and more vendors/ software developers devise their proprietary file formats, this number is set to grow. Needless to say, this creates confusion, for proprietary file formats of any kind require specialized software for the file to work!

Lossless compression

• CorePNG

• Huffyuv

• Lagarith

• LCL

• MSU Lossless Video Codec

• SheerVideo

• TSCC TechSmith Screen Capture Codec

• ZMBV (Zip Motion Block Video) Codec

Lossy Compression

• Audio Video Standard (AVS)

• Blackbird FORscene video codec

• Cinepak

• Dirac

• Firebird[1] Original FORscene video codec

• H.261

• H.263

• MPEG-4 ASP (Advanced Simple Profile) or MPEG-4 Part 2

  • 3ivx

  • HDX4

  • Nero Digital

  • DivX

  • FFmpeg MPEG-4

  • Xvid

• H.264, also known as MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) or MPEG-4 Part 10

  • CoreAVC

  • MainConcept

  • Nero Digital

  • QuickTime H.264 (MP4)

  • Sorenson AVC Pro codec, Sorenson's new implementation

  • Vanguard Software Solutions

  • x264

• Indeo 3/4/5

• MJPEG

• JPEG 2000 intra frame video codec

• MPEG-1 Video

• MPEG-2 Video

• MPEG-4 ASP (Advanced Simple Profile)

• MPEG-4 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) - approved for Blu-ray

• On2 Technologies VP3, VP6, VP7, under the name The Duck Corporation: TrueMotion S

• Pixlet

• Apple ProRes 422

• RealVideo

• Snow Wavelet Codec

• Tarkin

• Theora

• TruDef high definition fractal video codec

• VC-1 (the primary video codec used by HD DVD and Blu-ray)

• Windows Media Video (WMV)

  • WAX (Part of the Windows Media Series)