How to Put Video on your Website: Video File Types

If you want to put video on your website you must have a good knowledge of the basic video file types. What video file type to use? what are the pros and cons of each file type? These are just some of the questions you should ask yourself before proceeding with video implementation on your webpages.
There are three basic video file types on the internet. Mpeg, AVI and Quicktime. I believe the Quicktime file type is the most popular since a lot of huge entertainment and news sites use it exclusively on their web pages.
AVI is the oldest of the three main file types. It is a windows oriented video format but it's not the most popular because of the sound and video compatibility and synchronizing problems. Because the Quicktime format can be used on either a windows or a macintosh computer, the AVI video file type loses it's popularity every day.
The mpeg format is a popular video file type that uses it's high output quality to increase it's popularity over the Quicktime format. Mpeg is used on video games, cd-roms and other media that require high output quality. One disadvantage of mpeg is that it sacrifices file size to gain in digital quality. The mpeg video files are usually large.
Another disadvantage of the mpeg format is that you really need time and sophisticated hardware and software to convert plain video into mpeg. And let's not forget that the mpeg format is not supported by apple and macintosh meaning that if you put mpeg video on your website, those users with macintosh will not be able to see it.
Quicktime is by far the most popular video file type developed by apple for macintosh users, but is also compatible with the IBM-compatible machines and the windows operating systems. The hardware and software you need to digitize video into the Quicktime format is very inexpensive, compared to the mpeg format. So its much easier and cheaper to create video and put it on your website using the Quicktime format.

10 Common Filename Extensions and File Types

The top ten common filename extensions are extensions of files that are most commonly used by computer users. Here are the top ten (not necessarily in order) most common filename extensions:
1..doc - this is the file extension for a file created by Microsoft Word, the most popular word processing software. The most recent version of Microsoft Word is OOXML-based and has the filename extension of.docx
2..jpg - this is the filename extension for the compressed graphic format standardized by the JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group). Most digital images we see in the internet and in computers are in the JPEG format and has the filename extension of.jpg. This file can be viewed in most image viewing and editing software.
3..exe - this is the extension for Windows or DOS executable programs. If a file has this extension, it is a program and runs when opened. Self-extracting archives also have this extension.
4..htm or.html - the extension for HTML web page. HTML stands for "Hyper-Text Markup Language", the language used in writing web pages. This very page you are looking at now is a web page with a filename extension of.htm.
5..mp3 - the filename extension for compressed audio format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group. This audio format is very popular nowadays because its size is many times smaller than that of the Wave or AIF file. This makes it easy for people to download music from the internet. The downside of.mp3 is that the quality of sound is not as good as that of the Wave or AIF file.
6..mpg - this is a video format standardized by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG). This file can be played using Windows Media Player, Winamp, Roxio Easy Media Creator, Apple QuickTime Player, or VLC Media Player.
7..zip - this is the extension for any file that is compressed using the ZIP compression, a kind of compression which allows every file in the archive to be compressed separately. Programs that can open.zip files include WinZip, PKZip, and the popular WinRar.
8..pdf - this is the file extension for the document created by Adobe Acrobat or other PDF producing programs. PDF stands for "Portable Document Format" and may contain images, texts, forms, outlines, and links. PDF files are usually created from another file, like a web page or a Word document.
9..xls - this is the filename extension for Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet created with Microsoft Excel, the most popular spreadsheet program.
10..msi - this is the extension File extensions used for misc files, files that contain information about a particular installer. This is used for Windows updates and other software installers.