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Glossary of Common Terms

File format - A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. File formats associated with audiovisual data are called containers because they can hold separate streams of audio, video, and metadata.

Container - A file format that can hold separate streams of audio, video, and metadata (sometimes called a wrapper). Common audiovisual container formats are MOV, AVI, and MKV.

Codec library - A collection of codecs for encoding or decoding audio or video data. The media player VLC is built upon an open source codec library to enable playback of a variety of video and audio codecs.

Flags or Options- These give instructions to FFmpeg application to help the user know what it’s doing.