Sustainability of Digital Formats
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Full name | Information technology -- Coding of audio-visual objects (formal name) MPEG-4, Visual Coding, Core Profile |
Description | See also MP4_FF_2 and MPEG-4_V. Useful in higher-quality interactive services and supports mobile broadcast services.1 The Core Profile permits the use of the following visual object types: • Simple: rectangular video, uses intra (I) and predicted (P) video object planes (VOPs, the MPEG-4 term for frames). • Core: arbitrarily shaped video, uses a tool superset of Simple, adds bidirectional (B) video object planes (VOPs), binary shape coding, and supports temporal scalability based on sending extra P-VOPs. Two compression levels are permitted; Levels 1 (maximum bit rate 384 kbps) and 2 (maximum 2 Mbps). Uses typical session size depending upon level: Quarter Common Intermediate Format (QCIF; 176 pixels by 144 lines, 30 fps; 1.22:1) or Common Intermediate Format (CIF; 352 pixels by 288 lines, 30 fps; 1.22:1). |
Production phase | Generally a final-state (end-user delivery) format. |
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Subtype of | MPEG-4_V, MPEG-4, Visual Coding (Part 2) |
Used by | MP4_FF_2_V, MPEG-4 File Format, V.2, with Visual Coding (All Profiles) |
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Disclosure | Open standard. See MP4_FF_2. |
Documentation | See MP4_FF_2. |
Adoption | Actual adoption not known to the compilers of this document. |
Licensing and patent claims | See MP4_FF_2. |
Transparency | See MP4_FF_2. |
Self-documentation | See MP4_FF_2. |
External dependencies | See MP4_FF_2. |
Technical protection considerations | See MP4_FF_2. |
Normal rendering | Good support. |
Clarity (support for high image resolution) | See MPEG-4 and MPEG-4_V. Potential for greater clarity at a given picture size, data rate, and encoding algorithm, than some other MPEG-4 profiles, e.g., Simple and Simple Scalable Profiles. May offer slightly less clarity at a given picture size, data rate, and encoding algorithm than the Main Profile. |
Fidelity (support for high audio resolution) | See MPEG-4. |
Support for multiple sound channels | See MPEG-4. |
Functionality beyond normal video rendering | See MPEG-4. |
Tag type | Value | Note |
Filename Extension | mp4 | |
Internet Media Type | See MP4_FF_2 | |
Magic numbers | See MP4_FF_2 | |
Profile and level indicators | 00100001, 00100010 | For profile_and_level_indication for Core Profile, levels 1 and 2. From Annex G of Part 2 of the standard, pp. 454-55. |
File type brand | See note | Indicated in file wrapper and relates to "brands" defined in ISO_BMFF. Wrapping MPEG-4_V bitstreams in MP4_FF_1 would occasion the use of mp41; in MP4_FF_2, use mp42. See Part 15 of the standard, pp. 2-9, 13. |
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See MP4_FF_2.
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• See MP4_FF_2.
1Pereira, Fernando, and Touradj Ebrahimi, The MPEG-4 Book, Upper Saddle River, NJ: IMSC Press, 2002, p. 599.
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