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1. Characteristics of container formats
After the section on native formats and "media-essential" compression formats, container formats form the second part of this series of articles devoted to an overview of digital media.
Container formats are the indispensable form for acquiring, recording, searching, consulting, storing, editing, converting, transferring, archiving and distributing these digital media (in their native or compressed format) by encapsulating them, hence the term wrapper, or even more explicitly container (figure 1 ).
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Bibliography
Features
- (1) - EBU/SMPTE - Task force for harmonized standards for the exchange of programme material as bitstreams. - Final Report, Fig. 4.2 « Content Package : Packages, Items, Elements and Components », août 1998 https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/techreview/ebu-smpte-tf-bitstreams.pdf ...
Standards and norms
- Information technology – Coding of audio-visual objects – Part 12: ISO Base Media File Format, Apr. 15, 1994 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.htmlhttp://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/technologies/mp04-ff/index.htm - ISO/IEC 14496-12 - 2015
- Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) – Specification for converging ITU-R-System B inteletext in DVB bitstreams - ETSI-EN 300 472 - 2003
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Organizations – Federations – Associations (non-exhaustive list)
3GPP (3 rd Generation Partnership Project) http://www.3gpp.org/
AMWA (Advanced Media Workflow Association) ex-AAF (Advanced Authoring Format) Association http://www.amwa.tv/
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