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...

These tables compare features of multimedia container formats, most often used for storing or streaming digital video or digital audio content. To see...

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

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

A container format is a class of computer file formats that allow embedding multiple distinguishable data streams within a single file. Container format...

Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) is a generic file container format 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...

a raw bitstream in an audio coding format, but it is usually embedded in a container format or an audio data format with defined storage layer. It is important...

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...

RGBE format and Profile B on the XDepth format from Trellis Management. The High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is an image container format that...

formats such as HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc and became known as VC-1. Microsoft also developed a digital container format called Advanced Systems Format to...

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

High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a digital container for storing individual digital images and image sequences. The standard covers multimedia...

video coding format is normally bundled with an audio stream (encoded using an audio coding format) inside a multimedia container format such as AVI,...

Interchange File Format (IFF) is a generic digital container file format originally introduced by Electronic Arts (in cooperation with Commodore) in 1985...

transport stream container. This container format is commonly used for high-definition video on Blu-ray Disc and AVCHD. The BDAV container format is a modification...

specifications for the container format that contains the image data encoded with the JPEG algorithm. The base specifications for a JPEG container format are defined...

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...

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

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...

AVI, usually pronounced /ˌeɪ.viːˈaɪ/) is a proprietary multimedia container format and Windows standard introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part...

The M4V file format is a video container format developed by Apple and is very similar to the MP4 format. The primary difference is that M4V files may...

content encoded in a particular audio coding format is normally encapsulated within a container format. As such, the user normally doesn't have a raw...

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

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The authors of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents...

RealMedia is a proprietary multimedia container format created by RealNetworks with the filename extension .rm. RealMedia is generally used in conjunction...

contains the formatting of its content. Open Packaging Format (OPF) 2.0.1, describes the structure of the .epub file in XML. Open Container Format (OCF) 2...

sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF container format. It competes with HEIC, which uses the same container format built upon ISOBMFF, but HEVC for compression...

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...