Despite the foreign-sounding name, Matroska files are anything but rare. The multimedia container format — known more commonly as MKV — is an open standard, one entirely free for independent and ...

As with any digital video, an AVI file can be converted into an alternate format like TS. An acronym for transport stream, a file in the TS format is encoded to store MPEG-2 compressed video that is ...

Here’s the thing about burning an AVI file to a DVD — chances are you don’t need to. If you’re just trying to play the file on a TV, you’ve got a lot of options, so we’re going to go over those first.