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Some containers are exclusive to audio:
Other flexible containers can hold many types of audio and video, as well as other media. The most popular multi-media containers are:
There are many other container formats, such as NUT , MPEG , MXF , RatDVD , SVI ,and DivX Media Format . See the Comparison Of Container Formats for details regarding these formats. ISSUES The differences between various container formats arise from five main issues: # Popularity; how widely supported a container is. This is the reason that the AVI format is still the most popular format # Overhead. This is the difference in file-size between two files with the same content in a different container. For a two-hour film, when in AVI, the file may be up to 10MB larger than when in Matroska. # Support for advanced codec functionality. Older formats such as AVI do not support new codec features like B-frame s, VBR audio, VFR natively, although the format may be "hacked" to add support, creating compatibility problems. # Support for advanced content, such as chapters, subtitles, meta-tags, user-data. # Support of Streaming Media SEE ALSO RELATED LINKS |
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