Sustainability of Digital Formats
Planning for Library of Congress Collections
Sustainability of Digital Formats
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| Introduction | Sustainability Factors | Content Categories | Format Descriptions | Contact | |
| Full name | MPEG-4 file format, version 2, with Advanced Video Coding, no profile indicated (common name) |
| Description | Combination of a file format (wrapper) and encoding category (Advanced Video Coding; AVC, no profile indicated). |
| Production phase | Generally a final-state (end-user delivery) format, may also serve as middle-state format. |
| Relationship to other formats | |
| Subtype of | MP4_FF_2, MPEG-4 File Format, Version 2 |
| May contain | MPEG-4_AVC, Advanced Video Coding (Part 10), No Profile Indicated |
| May contain | AAC_MP4 (MPEG-4 Advanced Audio Coding) |
| May contain | AAC_MP4_LC, AAC (MPEG-4) Low Complexity Object |
| May contain | Additional audio, graphics, and scene graph stream types. Not documented at this time. |
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| Disclosure | Open standard. Developed by ISO technical program JTC 1/SC 29 (WG11), aka the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG). See http://www.iso.org/iso/en/stdsdevelopment/techprog/workprog/ TechnicalProgrammeSCDetailPage.TechnicalProgrammeSCDetail?COMMID=148. |
| Documentation | See MP4_FF_2 and MPEG-4_AVC. |
| Adoption | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Licensing and patent claims | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Transparency | See MPEG-4_AVC. |
| Self-documentation | See MP4_FF_2. |
| External dependencies | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Technical protection considerations | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Video elements | |
| Normal rendering for video | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Clarity (support for high image resolution) | See MPEG-4_AVC. |
| Functionality beyond normal video rendering | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Sound elements | |
| Fidelity (support for high audio resolution) | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Support for multiple sound channels | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Functionality beyond normal rendering for sound | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Tag type | Value | Note |
| Filename Extension | See MP4_FF_2. | |
| Internet Media Type | See MP4_FF_2 | |
| Magic numbers | See MP4_FF_2 | |
| File type brand | See MP4_FF_2 |
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| History |
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• ISO/IEC 14496-10:2003 Information technology -- Coding of audio-visual objects -- Part 10: Advanced Video Coding
• ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003 Information technology -- Coding of audio-visual objects -- Part 14: MP4 file format
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