If you can view the five most common formats though you’ll be able to view over 90% of the videos you’re most likely to find on the Web. Even beneath these common formats there are other ...

6. MPEG-2 (.mpg, .mpeg) MPEG-2 is one of those formats that quietly powers a lot of traditional video infrastructure. It’s still the standard format for DVDs and widely used in broadcast television.

Compatible Video Formats The iPad natively supports many of the common video formats used today, including H.264, MP4, M4V, MOV, MPEG-4 and M-JPEG. By default, these play in the iPad's Videos app.

That list encompasses pretty much every common video file format, but there are are some notable exceptions. RAW, for example, is not on the list. While very few people are uploading RAW video ...