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Which are the video formats that Youtube supports? (like avi, ...)

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There are quite a and some below here are containers of formats, and itself can support formats:

• Windows Media Video (.WMV)
• 3GP (Cell Phones)
• AVI (Windows)
• MOV (Mac)
• MP4 (iPod/PSP)
• MPEG / MPEGPS
• FLV (Flash)
• SWF (Flash)
• MKV (h.264)
• WebM

Even if it is not on the list, automatically YouTube attempts to recognize it. So for example if you have a container like Ogg or Ogv, then thy would most likely work. But if you have 'custom' data with a non-open standard like Microsoft Expression Encoder file, then YouTube can not parse that.

For more information about what format to use check out:

• http://www.ifunia.com/youtube-column/best-youtube-video-format.html
• http://www.youtube.com/handbook_popup_produce_upload?pcont=bestformats

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Here's what the documentation says:

• WebM files - Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codecs

• .MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - Typically supporting h264, mpeg4 video codecs, and AAC audio codec

• .AVI - Many cameras output this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM
• .MPEGPS - Typically supporting MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio
• .WMV
• .FLV - Adobe-FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio

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For uploading videos: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55744

When watching a video, default is through H264 enclosed in an FLV. You can switch that to pure H264 if you're using Chrome browser and you select to participate in the HTML5 beta.