Specifications
Digital Media: audio/image/video/multimedia container formats - Features

Container format specifications essentially describe, through metadata, the container (the envelope) and the content.

Published specifications for container formats can be (tables 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13):

• an international standard, published either by an international standards organization such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization), IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) or IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), or by an international professional body such as the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers), the AES...