What is a container file is?
In container files this is a kind of container in which various files and formats that can be collected:
- A container file is a file that includes several files in it.
- This enclosed files are partly restricted to specific formats, but is also completely free.
- The files together make up a logical Whole, which is why they in a Container are grouped.
- With the right Software, individual files can be extracted from the container file, or edited. In addition, they can be offset within the file, enabled or disabled.
- In particular, in the case of Multimedia and Office files such as AVI, DOC, MKV, MPG, ODS and PPT, but also in the case of archive files, such as CAB, IMG, ISO, NRG, RAR, and ZIP are container files.
Structure of a container file
Container files with the use of properly
The Practical of container files is that they can bring many file formats together and make sense. Thereby you will need but sometimes special programs to open, edit, or extract the single file formats from the Container:
- Because of the different file formats in a container file and can, be often different Codecs to Open the file needed.
- The Software "MediaInfo" reveals to any popular Multimedia file, which Codecs you need to play it and where do you get this.
- With "Xmedia Recode" can you Multimedia containers, single Audio, Video and subtitle files to extract and on request in other formats.
- Archive files you can use Freeware such as "7-Zip" or "Daemon Tools Lite" open and extract individual files. With burning programs, like "CDBurner XP" burn Image files to CD or DVD.
- Office container files that you can edit with the programs of the respective manufacturers. Often allow you to but Freeware variants such as "OpenOffice". In a further article we explain how you can make PDFs with "PDF24 Creator" to edit.
