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{{wikipedia|Comparison of container formats}}
Containers are Files that can contain audio and/or video. The audio and video is encoded (compressed) using [[codecs]], and then stored in a container. Codecs can normally be used in a variety of different containers.

You can usually tell what container format is used for a file by looking at the file's extension. For example, if a file has a .mp4 extension, it is likely to contain [[MPEG-4]] video.


Below are listed the formats you can play with vlc (if I've missed any, feel free to add it :-)

{|
|File Extension
|Contains
|-
|
|[[A52]]
|-
|.aac
|[[AAC]]
|-
|.aiff
|[[AIFF]]
|-
|
|[[Annodex]]
|-
|.asf
|[[ASF]]
|-
|.au
|[[AU]]
|-
|.avi
|[[AVI]]
|-
|.dts
|[[DTS]]
|-
|.mkv, .mka, .mks
|[[Matroska]]
|-
|
|[[MediaBase]]
|-
|.mpg, .mpeg
|[[MPEG-TS]] or [[MPEG-PS]]
|-
|.mov
|[[MOV]]
|-
|.m4a, .m4b, .m4p
|[[.m4a|MPEG-4 Audio]]
|-
|.mp4
|[[MP4|MPEG-4]]
|-
|.nsv
|[[NSV]]
|-
|.ogm
|[[OGM]]
|-
|.ogg
|[[Ogg]]
|-
|.pva
|[[PVA]]
|-
|.rm, .ram, .ra
|[[RealMedia]]
|-
|
|[[SDP]] (streaming only)
|-
|.wav
|[[WAV]]
|}