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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

stream M4V – video container file format developed by Apple .mkv – Matroska Matroska is a container format, which enables any video format such as MPEG-4...