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A container format is a file structure to combine audio/video data, tags, menus, subtitles and some other media elements (E.G, seeking ability). Flexible containers can hold any type of music file, for example you could put an MP3 inside an OGG container, although that would probably just lead to confusion... | |||
A container format is a file structure to combine audio/video data, tags, menus, subtitles and some other media elements ( | |||
The most popular containers are: AVI (the standard Microsoft Windows container), MOV (standard Apple MacOS container), MP4 (standard container for the MPEG4 multimedia portfolio), OGG (standard container for Xiph.org codecs), ASF (standard container for Microsoft WMA and WMV) and Matroska (not really standard for any codec or system, but still popular in the digital video scene). | The most popular containers are: AVI (the standard Microsoft Windows container), MOV (standard Apple MacOS container), MP4 (standard container for the MPEG4 multimedia portfolio), OGG (standard container for Xiph.org codecs), ASF (standard container for Microsoft WMA and WMV) and Matroska (not really standard for any codec or system, but still popular in the digital video scene). | ||
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Read more: [[MP4]], [[OGG]], [[Matroska]] | Read more: [[AVI]], [[MP4]], [[MOV]], [[OGG]], [[Matroska]], [[ASF]] | ||
Revision as of 16:12, 1 April 2005
A container format is a file structure to combine audio/video data, tags, menus, subtitles and some other media elements (E.G, seeking ability). Flexible containers can hold any type of music file, for example you could put an MP3 inside an OGG container, although that would probably just lead to confusion...
The most popular containers are: AVI (the standard Microsoft Windows container), MOV (standard Apple MacOS container), MP4 (standard container for the MPEG4 multimedia portfolio), OGG (standard container for Xiph.org codecs), ASF (standard container for Microsoft WMA and WMV) and Matroska (not really standard for any codec or system, but still popular in the digital video scene).
Some containers are exclusive to audio. Examples are WAV (Windows platform) and AIFF (MacOS platform)