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For your video conversion needs, you can’t go wrong with the free programs Handbrake and VLC. VLC Media Player can play a whole host of video formats, including MPEG-4, H.264, WMV, and MKV with no extra plug-ins. With the program open on screen, choose Media, then Convert/Save and choose the format you want it into.
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When selecting file formats online for archiving, the formats should ideally be: Non-proprietary Unencrypted Uncompressed In common usage by the research community Adherent to an open, documented standard, such as described by the State of California (see AB 1668, 2007) Interoperable among diverse platforms and applications Fully published and available royalty-free Fully and independently implementable by multiple software providers on multiple platforms without any intellectual property restrictions for necessary technology Developed and maintained by an open standards organization with a well-defined inclusive process for evolution of the standard. Fully and independently implementable by multiple software providers on multiple platforms without any intellectual property restrictions for necessary technology Developed and maintained by an open standards organization with a well-defined inclusive process for evolution of the standard.
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Some preferred file formats:
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- Containers: TAR, GZIP, ZIP
- Databases: XML, CSV
- Geospatial: SHP, DBF, GeoTIFF, NetCDF
- Moving images: MOV, MPEG, AVI, MXF
- Sounds: WAVE, AIFF, MP3, MXF
- Statistics: ASCII, DTA, POR, SAS, SAV
- Still images: TIFF, JPEG 2000, PDF, PNG, GIF, BMP
- Tabular data: CSV
- Text: XML, PDF/A, HTML, ACII, UTF-8
- Web archive: WARC |
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