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A container format (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single file, usually along with metadata for identifying and further detailing those streams.[1] Notable examples of container formats include archive files (such as the ZIP format) and formats used for multimedia playback (such as Matroska, MP4, and AVI). Among the earliest cross-platform container formats were Distinguished Encoding Rules and the 1985 Interchange File Format.
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A containerformat (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single...
These tables compare features of multimedia containerformats, most often used for storing or streaming digital video or digital audio content. To see...
Multimedia ContainerFormat (MCF) is an unfinished specification for containerformat, designed to be completely free and open. The project was abandoned...
Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video containerformat, especially...
QuickTime File Format (QTFF) is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework. The format specifies a multimedia container file that contains...
MPEG-4 Part 14, or MP4, is a digital multimedia containerformat most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data...
a raw bitstream in an audio coding format, but it is usually embedded in a containerformat or an audio data format with defined storage layer. It is important...
Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) is a generic file containerformat for storing data in tagged chunks. It is primarily used for audio and video...
normally consists of a container (e.g. in the Matroska format) containing visual (video without audio) data in a video coding format (e.g. VP9) alongside...
create a containerformat that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file. The Matroska Multimedia Container is similar...
RGBE format and Profile B on the XDepth format from Trellis Management. The High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is an image containerformat that...
High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a containerformat for storing individual digital images and image sequences. The standard covers multimedia...
formats such as HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc and became known as VC-1. Microsoft also developed a digital containerformat called Advanced Systems Format to...
video coding format is normally bundled with an audio stream (encoded using an audio coding format) inside a multimedia containerformat such as AVI,...
Material Exchange Format (MXF) is a containerformat for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards. A typical example...
The ISO base media file format (ISOBMFF) is a container file format that defines a general structure for files that contain time-based multimedia data...
contains the formatting of its content. Open Packaging Format (OPF) 2.0.1, describes the structure of the .epub file in XML. Open ContainerFormat (OCF) 2...
specifications for the containerformat that contains the image data encoded with the JPEG algorithm. The base specifications for a JPEG containerformat are defined...
(MPEG-TS, MTS) or simply transport stream (TS) is a standard digital containerformat for transmission and storage of audio, video, and Program and System...
Interchange File Format (IFF) is a generic digital container file format originally introduced by Electronic Arts (in cooperation with Commodore) in 1985...
content encoded in a particular audio coding format is normally encapsulated within a containerformat. As such, the user normally doesn't have a raw...
3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia containerformat defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services. It...
Ogg is a free, open containerformat maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The authors of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents...
The M4V file format is a video containerformat developed by Apple and is very similar to the MP4 format. The primary difference is that M4V files may...
types and container sizes in the standard WAV format and supports defining custom extensions to the format. A RIFF file is a tagged file format. It has...
A recording format is a format for encoding data for storage on a storage medium. The format can be container information such as sectors on a disk, or...
AVI, usually pronounced /ˌeɪ.viːˈaɪ/) is a proprietary multimedia containerformat and Windows standard introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part...
sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF containerformat. It competes with HEIC, which uses the same containerformat built upon ISOBMFF, but HEVC for compression...
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