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Digital container format

Index Digital container format

A container or wrapper format is a metafile format whose specification describes how different elements of data and metadata coexist in a computer file. [1]

81 relations: Adobe Systems, Advanced Systems Format, Apple Inc., Archive file, Audio file format, Audio Interchange File Format, Audio Video Interleave, Bit slip, Blu-ray, Codec, Comparison of audio coding formats, Comparison of video codecs, Comparison of video container formats, Computer file, Computer program, Cross-platform, DivX, DVD-Video, DVR-MS, Dynamic-link library, Electronic program guide, Elementary stream, FFmpeg, File format, FITS, Flash Video, Forward compatibility, General Exchange Format, Interchange File Format, ISO base media file format, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG File Interchange Format, JPEG Network Graphics, List of codecs, List of open-source codecs, Macintosh operating systems, Magic number (programming), Material Exchange Format, Matroska, Metadata, Metafile, Microsoft Windows, Modular design, MPEG program stream, MPEG transport stream, MPEG-4, MPEG-4 Part 14, Multimedia, Multiple-image Network Graphics, ..., Ogg, Open standard, Open-source model, Opus (audio format), Portable Network Graphics, Proprietary software, QuickTime, QuickTime File Format, RatDVD, RealAudio, RealMedia, RealVideo, Resource Interchange File Format, Serial communication, Streaming media, Subtitle (captioning), Tag (metadata), Theora, TIFF, Variable bitrate, Variable frame rate, Video compression picture types, VOB, Vorbis, WAV, Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video, X.690, Xiph.Org Foundation, XMF, 3GP and 3G2. Expand index (31 more) »

Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated, commonly known as Adobe, is an American multinational computer software company.

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Advanced Systems Format

Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, that designs, develops, and sells consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.

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Archive file

An archive file is a file that is composed of one or more computer files along with metadata........

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Audio file format

An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system.

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Audio Interchange File Format

Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices.

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Audio Video Interleave

Audio Video Interleave (also Audio Video Interleaved), known by its initials AVI, is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows software.

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Bit slip

In digital transmission, bit slip is the loss or gain of a bit or bits, caused by clock drift – variations in the respective clock rates of the transmitting and receiving devices.

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Blu-ray

Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Codec

A codec is a device or computer program for encoding or decoding a digital data stream or signal.

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Comparison of audio coding formats

The following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of audio coding formats.

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Comparison of video codecs

Α video codec is software or a device that provides encoding and decoding for digital video, and which may or may not include the use of video compression and/or decompression.

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Comparison of video container formats

This table compares features of container formats (video file formats).

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Computer file

A computer file is a computer resource for recording data discretely in a computer storage device.

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Computer program

A computer program is a collection of instructions for performing a specific task that is designed to solve a specific class of problems.

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Cross-platform

In computing, cross-platform software (also multi-platform software or platform-independent software) is computer software that is implemented on multiple computing platforms.

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DivX

DivX is a brand of video codec products developed by DivX, LLC.

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DVD-Video

DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVD discs, and is the dominant consumer video format in Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia.

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DVR-MS

DVR-MS (Microsoft Digital Video Recording) is a proprietary video and audio file container format, developed by Microsoft used for storing TV content recorded by Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

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Dynamic-link library

Dynamic-link library (or DLL) is Microsoft's implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.

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Electronic program guide

Electronic program guides (EPGs) and interactive program guides (IPGs) are menu-based systems that provide users of television, radio and other media applications with continuously updated menus displaying broadcast programming (TV listings in the UK) or scheduling information for current and upcoming programming.

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Elementary stream

An elementary stream (ES) as defined by the MPEG communication protocol is usually the output of an audio or video encoder.

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FFmpeg

FFmpeg is a free software project, the product of which is a vast software suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and streams.

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File format

A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file.

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FITS

Flexible Image Transport System (FITS) is an open standard defining a digital file format useful for storage, transmission and processing of data: formatted as N-dimensional arrays (for example a 2D image), or tables.

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Flash Video

Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver digital video content (e.g., TV shows, movies, etc.) over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer.

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Forward compatibility

Forward compatibility or upward compatibility is a design characteristic that allows a system to accept input intended for a later version of itself.

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General Exchange Format

General eXchange Format (GXF), is a file exchange format for the transfer of simple and compound clips between television program storage systems.

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Interchange File Format

Interchange File Format (IFF), is a generic container file format originally introduced by the Electronic Arts company in 1985 (in cooperation with Commodore/Amiga) in order to facilitate transfer of data between software produced by different companies.

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ISO base media file format

ISO base media file format (ISO/IEC 14496-12 – MPEG-4 Part 12) defines a general structure for time-based multimedia files such as video and audio.

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JPEG

JPEG is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.

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JPEG 2000

JPEG 2000 (JP2) is an image compression standard and coding system.

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JPEG File Interchange Format

The JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) is an image file format standard.

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JPEG Network Graphics

JPEG Network Graphics (JNG) is a JPEG-based graphics file format which is closely related to PNG: it uses the PNG file structure (with a different signature) as a container format to wrap JPEG-encoded image data.

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List of codecs

The following is a list of compression formats and related codecs.

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List of open-source codecs

This is a listing of open-source implementations of media formats—usually called codecs.

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Macintosh operating systems

The family of Macintosh operating systems developed by Apple Inc. includes the graphical user interface-based operating systems it has designed for use with its Macintosh series of personal computers since 1984, as well as the related system software it once created for compatible third-party systems.

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Magic number (programming)

In computer programming, the term magic number has multiple meanings.

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Material Exchange Format

Material eXchange Format (MXF) is a container format for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards.

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Matroska

The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard, free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file.

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Metadata

Metadata is "data that provides information about other data".

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Metafile

Metafile is a generic term for a file format that can store multiple types of data.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Modular design

Modular design, or "modularity in design", is a design approach that subdivides a system into smaller parts called modules or skids, that can be independently created and then used in different systems.

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MPEG program stream

Program stream (PS or MPEG-PS) is a container format for multiplexing digital audio, video and more.

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MPEG transport stream

MPEG transport stream (transport stream, MPEG-TS, MTS or TS) is a standard digital container format for transmission and storage of audio, video, and Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) data.

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MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a method of defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data.

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MPEG-4 Part 14

MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images.

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Multimedia

Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.

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Multiple-image Network Graphics

Multiple-image Network Graphics (MNG) is a graphics file format, published in 2001, for animated images.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Open standard

An open standard is a standard that is publicly available and has various rights to use associated with it, and may also have various properties of how it was designed (e.g. open process).

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Open-source model

The open-source model is a decentralized software-development model that encourages open collaboration.

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Opus (audio format)

Opus is a lossy audio coding format developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation and standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force, designed to efficiently code speech and general audio in a single format, while remaining low-latency enough for real-time interactive communication and low-complexity enough for low-end embedded processors.

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Portable Network Graphics

Portable Network Graphics (PNG, pronounced or) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression.

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Proprietary software

Proprietary software is non-free computer software for which the software's publisher or another person retains intellectual property rights—usually copyright of the source code, but sometimes patent rights.

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QuickTime

QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity.

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QuickTime File Format

QuickTime File Format (QTFF) is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework.

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RatDVD

RatDVD (originally stylized "ratDVD") is the name of a proprietary container format for digital video, developed by Peter Jensen and a group of Russian and Danish university students.

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RealAudio

RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks and first released in April 1995.

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RealMedia

RealMedia is a proprietary multimedia container format created by RealNetworks.

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RealVideo

RealVideo is a suite of proprietary video compression formats developed by RealNetworks – the specific format changes with the version.

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Resource Interchange File Format

The Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) is a generic file container format for storing data in tagged chunks.

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Serial communication

In telecommunication and data transmission, serial communication is the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel or computer bus.

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Streaming media

Streaming media is multimedia that is constantly received by and presented to an end-user while being delivered by a provider.

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Subtitle (captioning)

Subtitles are text derived from either a transcript or screenplay of the dialog or commentary in films, television programs, video games, and the like, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen, but can also be at the top of the screen if there is already text at the bottom of the screen.

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Tag (metadata)

In information systems, a tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image, database record, or computer file).

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Theora

Theora is a free lossy video compression format.

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TIFF

Tagged Image File Format, abbreviated TIFF or TIF, is a computer file format for storing raster graphics images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and photographers.

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Variable bitrate

Variable bitrate (VBR) is a term used in telecommunications and computing that relates to the bitrate used in sound or video encoding.

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Variable frame rate

Variable frame rate (or VFR) is a term in video compression for a feature supported by some container formats which allows for the frame rate to change actively during video playback, or to drop the idea of frame rate completely and set individual timecode for each frame.

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Video compression picture types

In the field of video compression a video frame is compressed using different algorithms with different advantages and disadvantages, centered mainly around amount of data compression.

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VOB

VOB (Video Object) is the container format in DVD-Video media.

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Vorbis

Vorbis is a free and open-source software project headed by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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WAV

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or more commonly known as WAV due to its filename extension - both pronounced "wave") (rarely, Audio for Windows) is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on PCs.

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Windows Media Audio

Windows Media Audio (WMA) is the name of a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft.

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Windows Media Video

Windows Media Video (WMV) is a series of video codecs and their corresponding video coding formats developed by Microsoft.

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X.690

X.690 is an ITU-T standard specifying several ASN.1 encoding formats.

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Xiph.Org Foundation

Xiph.Org Foundation is a non-profit organization that produces free multimedia formats and software tools.

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XMF

XMF (Extensible Music Format) is a tree-based digital container format used to bundle music-oriented content, such as a MIDI file and optionally the sounds it uses, liner notes or other content grouped by language-codes.

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3GP and 3G2

3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_container_format

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