H.264 is an implementation of MPEG-4 Part 10, a standard for video compression. Compared to other video, it produces very high quality at a lower bitrate, which makes it more suitable to compress full high-definition video content. However, it also consumes more resources than other popular video formats when it provides higher quality video. Actually, it's a video codec, which must be in other multimedia containers like MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV etc. To watch H.264 videos, you have two choices…
MKV is a free, open source container format, developed by Matroska, which can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file. It is more and more popular and will no doubt become the dominant video container for HD videos. However pity is that the official Apple QuickTime player doesn't support .mkv files natively, which means that you can not directly play MKV on Mac. On the other hand, there are also lots of ways…
Many people would have such questions that what is the best M2TS video player to play M2TS videos without quality loss. M2TS files are used primarily with Sony hardware. Camcorders make use of M2TS in the form of AVCHD, a recording format made specifically for camcorders. Some camcorder models from Canon also use M2TS files. These files are also present on Blu-ray disc compilations, therefore they are capable of storing quite a large amount of information and data tracks. Software…
"Recently, I got my sony laptop with Windows 8 When I plug USB in my computer to play the videos of rmvb formats , unfortunately, I cannot play it. There is plug-in Windows Media Player in it. What's the problem? Any ideas?" I firmly believe that such question not only happens on Windows 8 and RMVB videos, but also on other Windows OS and videos in other formats like RMVB , VOB, MKV, etc. Windows Media Player will not satisfy…
"I am running Windows 7 x64 and the latest version on WinTV 7, when I record a program it saves it as .ts and on playback I can see the video but no audio in WMP. I would like to know how to solve this problem, or if possible, any kind of free TS player suggested?" TS files are nowadays very wide spread on the Internet as (usually split) recordings from HDTV broadcasts. As an MPEG format, there are a…
"Anybody know, how to play VOB files on Windows 8 Consumer Preview? You can play DVD disc on W8CP, but if you copy directory VIDEO_TS, and then try to play VTS_01_1,VOB (and so on) as in Windows 7 without any problems works, no chance. Any idea how to resolve this issue?" In fact, not only in Windows 8 Computer Preview OS, such questions come to the final version of Windows 8 and even Windows 8.1. In this guide, you would…
Questions like How to play AVCHD (.mts) files on Windows PC are very common online. This guide would show 3 different ways to play MTS videos on Windows PC. Method 1: Burn MTS video to DVD/Blu-ray disc When you record videos with camcorder and then copy the AVCHD videos to computer, the AVCHD videos are saved in .mts or .m2ts format with up to 1920x1080 pixels resolution. Burning MTS video to DVD/Blu-ray disc is the best way to retain the…
"How to play AVCHD (.mts) files on Windows PC? What Player will Play AVCHD (MTS) Video on Windows PC? And how to make Smoothly AVCHD/MTS Playback on Windows PC? How to play AVCHD (.mts) files on Windows PC?..." Many movie fans are nagged by such kind of questions when they try to enjoy AVCHD movies on their computer. AVCHD Video is an effective file format for camcorders and digital cameras with HD recording capability. AVCHD Video's foremost advantages are contained…
"Whenever I downloaded a video, it's in FLV format. Thus I need a video player that plays FLV videos on my Windows 8 easily." FLV is a proprietary file format that mainly delivers video content over the Internet. Specifically, the video stream included can be a variant of the H.263 standard or the much more advanced On2 VP6 codec. Video from YouTube or Metacafe use a simplified H.263, commonly refereed to as FLV1 and FLV4 (YouTube uses both, depending on…
"Can't play .mov files in Windows Media Player 12. I just upgraded to Windows 7 and now I can't get the Windows Media Player 12 to play .mov files. It will play some old ones but not the new ones. I even tried to play with Quicktime and no good." Such problems are quite common for people's movie enjoying. To get a satisfactory answer, as claimed by Microsoft Ansers Forum, people need to download and install the latest codec on…