Audio to Video Converters – Converts Media Containers

A media container format (or sometimes referred to as a wrapper format) is a format that can contain various types of data such as audio and video data. The data is compressed using a codec. A codec (coder and decoder compound) is the algorithm used to compress and/or decompress stream multimedia data to reduce the number of bytes needed to store or send.

However, with the advancement in technology, it is now easier for web users to get their desired files converted in desired formats. Currently, there are hundreds of online resources available where you can convert audio to video and vice versa.

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Some containers are limited to audio formats such as WAV files for Windows, AIFF for Mac and XMF; some are restricted to still images as FITS and TIFF. There is also a flexible container; it can withstand several types of audio, video and other media such as ASF files for Windows, MP4, and Matroska. The most common multimedia containers are:

3GP – used by mobile phones

ASF – standard WMA and WMV containers

AVI – Windows standard containers

Matroska – an open standard container

MPEG – standard container for MPEG-1 and MPEG-2

MP4 – standard container for MPEG-4

Ogg – free and open standard container for codec Vorbis (audio) and Theora (video)

The difference between the different container formats coming from five (5) major issues: