Audio & Video formats

AVI
Audio/viedo interleave, the most ubiquitous audio/video container format, which support the most audio and video formats.

MPG
The audio/video container for MPEG，has a streaming attribute. It can be further classified into PS, TS, used respectively as a container for DVD and HDTV.

VOB
The audio/video container format for DVD, supports multi-video, multi-track, and multi-title etc.

MP4
The audio/video container format for MPEG-4, based on QuickTime MOV, and features many superiorities.

3GP
3GPP uses 3GP as a video format to transmit streaming media.

ASF
Windows Media applies ASF as its audio/video container, to be used for transmitting streams, script included.

RM
Real Media uses RM to transmit streams.

MOV
The audio/video container for QuickTime, maybe the most powerful container at present. Besides many common technologies it supports, it even upholds virtual reality and java, an edge over its variations such as MP4 and 3GP.

WAV
A kind of audio container. People often refer to WAV as the unzipped PCM code, but as a matter of fact, WAV also includes other ACM zipping codes such as MP3.

MP3
MPEG Audio Layer 3, as has been mentioned above.