Codecs
Mpeg-1	designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to 1.5 Mbit/s without quality loss, used to make CDs, digital cable/satellite TV and digital audio broadcasting (DAB) possible.[
Mpeg-2 DVD	MPEG-2 is used as the format of digital television signals that are broadcast by terrestrial (over-the-air), cable, and direct broadcast satellite TV systems. It also specifies the format of movies and other programs that are distributed on DVD and similar discs.[
Mpeg-2 Blu-Ray	The earliest releases of Blu-ray used MPEG-2 video compression, the same method used on standard DVDs.[
Adobe Flash Video	Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player versions 6–10. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are two different video file formats defined by Adobe Systems and supported in Adobe Flash Player: FLV and F4V.[
h.264	H.264/AVC is the latest block-oriented motion-compensation-based codec standard developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), and it was the product of a partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT).[

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