Playing VOB files on VLC player
The file format vob is a DVD format that can contain audio, video, subtitles and menus. What is in the file depends on the DVD that it came from. DVDs with lots of special features and extra languages and subtitles will have bigger vob files on them then basic [...]
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Play VOB Files
February 1st, 2010Play MXF Files
February 1st, 2010Material eXchange Format ( MXF ) is a container or a wrapper format for digital audio and video media defined by a set of standards defined by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ( SMPTE ). MXF is an open file format aimed at the interchange of audio and video material with associated [...]
Play AIFF Files
February 1st, 2010Playing AIFF Files on VLC
Have you ever wanted to play sound files created in a native Macintosh format on a PC? Playing AIFF files on VLC allows you to do just that. AIFF is an acronym for Audio Interchange File Format, a sound file type that was used beginning in the late 1980’s, and is [...]
Play WAV Files
February 1st, 2010Playing WAV files on VLC
Playing WAV files on VLC is easy! WAV files, also known as Audio for Windows files or Waveform audio format files are digital sound files that were once native to Microsoft Windows programs. A WAV file is the conversion of an analog sound to a digital bit stream which can be [...]
Play OGM Files
February 1st, 2010Playing OGM Files on VLC
Files with the extension OGM are video files using the OGG file format for compression. The OGG file format was developed by the Xiph.Org foundation as a free, open source format for video, audio, and metadata. Unlike other video and audio formats, which are restricted by software patents and often only [...]
Play OGG Files
February 1st, 2010Playing OGG Files on VLC
The OGG file format is possibly one of the greatest formats available today. While MP3’s are definitely the most familiar of audio formats, that does not necessarily make MP3 the best format. The OGG format has several advantages over the MP3 format.
Technically, there are many individual formats that can be used [...]
Play MP4 Files
February 1st, 2010How to Play MP4 Files in VLC
The MP4, or MPEG-4 Part 14, file type is used for multimedia files, such as digital video or digital audio. It can be identified by the “.mp4″ file extension found at the end of a file name and is frequently seen in use among audio and video files that [...]
Play MKV Files
February 1st, 2010Playing MKV Files on VLC
MKV is a file extension used for the Matroska file format for video, audio, or picture storage. It’s been created by open source developers to serve as a universal format for multimedia use. It’s commonly used for storing videos or TV shows, and MKV specifically refers to files including video. While [...]
Play FLV Files
February 1st, 2010Playing FLV with VLC
The FLV file type is a container for flash video (FLash Video). Over the course of several years of a competitive video streaming market, FLV has become the format of choice for internet-based video. It was originally a proprietary format designed and owned by Adobe, and it required the use of Adobe [...]
Play AVI Files
February 1st, 2010Playing AVI Files on VLC
Playing AVI files on VLC is as easy as opening a file!
AVI is an acronym for Audio Video Interleave, a type of multimedia file format introduced by Microsoft in 1992. As the format name implies, AVI files can contain audio or video files or both together in an appropriate timing sequence [...]