How to Make Demo Videos More Digestible

A reader recently asked: "I've been thinking about starting a screencast tutorial site, and I'm wondering what would be the best file format for my videos? MKV/OGG etc.?"

There are several factors to consider when deciding which video format is best, such as encoding efficiency (file size) versus decoding speed (quality).

For the purpose of this article, we'll presume that you want your videos to look great and play back smoothly. Here's what I recommend:

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Use H.264 compression with AAC audio; container should be MP4 .

## Why? The combination of these two codecs is currently capable of terrific results at extremely low bitrates (which means small files sizes), while maintaining the ability to edit and playback smoothly (which is important if you plan on doing post-production).

The list of devices that can play MP4 files -- but not MKV/OGG, for example -- includes: Apple's iPhone 3GS , 4 , and 4S; the third-gen iPad; all versions of Android prior to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ; Windows Phone 7 Series; webOS devices including Palm Pre, HP TouchPad, LG Phoenix, Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 WiFi, HP Veer , and HTC Jetstream ; BlackBerry OS up through version 6.0; Wii U when it launches in 2012; Chromebooks by Samsung, Acer, ASUS…