Open H-263 file

The most common choise: H.263 encoded video

How to open H.263 encoded video .h-263 files

h-263 file icon Have you had trouble opening the h-263 file on your computer? What are h-263 files? We explain what they are and recommend software that we know will open them.

What is h-263 file?

An h-263 file is used to store video content compressed with H.263 video codec.

H.263 encoded video description

The h-263 file extension is associated with the H.263 video codec. H.263 was developed as a provisional ITU-T standard and published in 1995.

It is designed for low bitrate communication (less then 64 Kbit/s) and used by various videoconferencing applications. It supports five resolutions. H.263 codec was replaced by H.264 and VP6.

H.263 codec uses 3GP multimedia container to store video content.

Suggested software to open h-263 file

RealPlayer

Multimedia player with support for proprietary RealNetworks formats

What file extension actually is?

Simply put, file extensions are the characters after the dot in the computer file name, so for example document-name.pdf has file extension „pdf“. This helps Windows to identify which program should be used to open the file.

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