Of course, there are many pre-compiled codec packs around that contain many of the most popular codecs, but if you don’t want to download a whole pack to play 1 file then you just want the individual codec. Many multimedia players such as VLC, KMPlayer or Media Player Classic have their own codecs built in, but others don’t and this is where you need to get the correct codecs to play the file. A codec is simply a small program that’s used to encode or decode data, and you need them to play your multimedia files. If you’re having general issues playing video files then one of your codecs used to play the audio or video might be corrupted, but otherwise it might be that you don’t have the correct codec installed to play the file properly. Other times you might download the file and either get problems playing the video or audio portion which can be frustrating. Sometimes you might be unlucky and get a corrupted file either during the download or it wasn’t uploaded correctly, in which case you would have to re-download or try and repair the video file. This is a quick and easy way to export and convert video from one file format to another.With so many different types of video file available, when you download one from the internet, there’s always the possibility of a problem playing it properly. This will render your video to the desired file format of your choice. Once your file type and profile are selected you can proceed to export. if you select a 4K video format, the file size will be larger than if you export to an HD profile. To the left under the preview pane, you can see the projected file size. Under properties, you can select the video profile to render too. Here you can select which file type you wish to export your video as. The default tab on the share tab is to export to file. When you’re happy with the video on the timeline, go to the Share tab in VideoStudio. Should you wish to crop video, trim video, or make any edits, now is the time to do so. Simply drag and drop the video from the VideoStudio library or your computer browser on to the timeline.
Open VideoStudio on your PC (if you need to install VideoStudio Trial still, download and run the installation file above and continue following on-screen instructions to complete the installation and setup process).
MOV, MP4, or AVI, but it's important to remember that there can be different types of video within these file formats. Containers are sometimes referred to as file extensions, e.g.
Some codecs can be wrapped in multiple different containers.
For example, MP4 is a container, and can hold different types of video compression, for example, MPEG-2 Part 2, MPEG-4 AVC, or HEVC, as well as audio (again compressed in a variety of formats) and metadata (for example subtitles). NOTE: It's important to distinguish between file container formats and compression formats, or codecs. If the video inside the MKV file is encoded as H.264 or AVC, re-encoding the file to H.265 or HEVC at the same bitrate could reduce the file size without losing image quality, but the user would also need to decide whether they needed to continue to wrap this video in a MKV file, or perhaps in a more widely supported file format such as MP4. Since MKV is a container format and HEVC is a compression format, converting from MKV to HEVC is a misnomer. HEVC files are rarely stored with the file extension.HEVC but are instead commonly wrapped within the file containers MOV or MP4. This compression format was designed as a successor to H.264, (Advanced Video Coding or MPEG-4 Part 10) and can compress data up to 50% more than AVC whilst retaining the same image quality. HEVC is a video codec abbreviated from High Efficiency Video Coding, is also known as H.265 or MPEG-H Part 2. MKV is rare in video file formats as it is completely open-source, and has wide support for integrated non-video elements, such as chapters, selectable video or audio streams, or subtitles embedded in a single file. Developed in Russia in 2002, MKV is a container format that stands for Matroska Video, taking the name from Russian nesting dolls or ‘matryoshka’.