Making sense of digital video files
By Donald Bell on 01 September 2009
Do you find the alphabet soup of digital video file formats all too confusing? You're not alone. Donald Bell resorts to plastic sandwich bags to help clarify why it's all so tricky to work out and along the way he explains some common terms and concepts.
Topics: bit rate, digital, frame rate, resolution, video, digital video, rate, sandwich, clarify, soup
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