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

This article provides an overview of digital media container formats, or "envelopes" for storing or transporting media essence. After describing their characteristics, it tabulates the great diversity of these container formats. This diversity is explained by the objectives and origins of their development, their respective storage/transport functions, the type and formats of encapsulated media, the wealth of associated metadata...

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