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Video converters are computer programs that can change the storage format of digital video. They may recompress the video to another format in a process called transcoding, or may simply change the container format without changing the video format.
Compression can be much slower than gzip, and is slower than bzip2 for high levels of compression, and is most useful when a compressed file will be used many times. [4] [5] XZ Utils consists of two major components: xz, the command-line compressor and decompressor (analogous to gzip) liblzma, a software library with an API similar to zlib
This is a listing of open-source codecs—that is, open-source software implementations of audio or video coding formats, audio codecs and video codecs respectively. Many of the codecs listed implement media formats that are restricted by patents and are hence not open formats.
The quality the codec can achieve is heavily based on the compression format the codec uses. A codec is not a format, and there may be multiple codecs that implement the same compression specification – for example, MPEG-1 codecs typically do not achieve quality/size ratio comparable to codecs that implement the more modern H.264 specification.
In February 2021 Zamzar expanded their tool and announced a new file compression service. [10] The compressor is visually similar to the conversion tool with a drag and drop download feature. As with the converter, users have the option to subscribe for a paid plan if they wish to compress multiple or larger files than the free service permits [11]
Although sometimes compared to DivX products, Xvid is neither a container format nor a video format, it is a software library that encodes video using specific coding profiles of the common MPEG-4 ASP video format. Those types of restrictions are intended to simplify the construction of multimedia recorders and players.
The software has been reviewed as being "ridiculously easy to use" [12] and "interface is easy to manipulate". [13] AVC was featured as Lifehacker's Download of the Day on November 30, 2006. [7] Windows Vista Magazine had a tutorial on converting video files with the software for viewing on a PSP in its April 2007 issue. [12]
LosslessCut is a free, platform independent video editing software, which supports numerous audio, video and container formats. [4] [5] It is a graphical user interface, with MacOS, [6] Windows [7] and Linux [8] support, using the FFmpeg multimedia framework. The software focuses on the lossless editing of the video files. [9]