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compressed, the file is placed into some sort of container file or wrapper. The

key thing to note here is that the wrapper file doesn’t necessarily specify how

the video or audio tracks were encoded. You can look at two seemingly

identical movie files—for example, both saved with the .MP4 file extension

—and find that one will play audio and video just fine in Windows Media

Player, but the other one might play only the audio and not the video because

Media Player lacks the specific codec needed to decode the video stream.

Here are some of the more common video wrappers you might run across:

• AVI, a container file for Windows (not used much these days)

• MOV, the standard format for Apple QuickTime

• MP4, probably the most common format these days, used for h.264

and h.265 video

Storage Devices

Removable media refers to any type of mass storage device that you may use

in one system and then physically remove from that system and use in

another. Today’s highly internetworked computers have reduced the need for

removable media as a method of sharing programs and data, but removable

media has so many other uses that it’s still going strong. Removable media is

the perfect tool for software distribution, data archiving, and system backup.

This section of the chapter covers the most common types of removable

media used today. For the sake of organization, the removable media types

are broken down into these groups:

• Flash memory From USB thumb drives to flash memory cards

• Optical discs Any shiny disc technology, from CD-ROMs to DVDs

and Blu-ray Discs

We can add external drives to this mix, meaning any hard drive, SSD, or

optical drive that connects to a PC via an external cable. These drives

manifest just like an internal drive, as you studied in Chapter 8, “Mass

Storage Technologies,” and Chapter 9, “Implementing Mass Storage,” so

there’s nothing special to discuss here.

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