Sustainability of Digital Formats
Planning for Library of Congress Collections
Sustainability of Digital Formats
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| Introduction | Sustainability Factors | Content Categories | Format Descriptions | Contact | |
| Full name | Information technology -- Coding of audio-visual objects (formal name) MPEG-4, Visual Coding, Simple Profile |
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| Description | See also MP4_FF_2 and MPEG-4_V. Intended to serve mobile audio-visual services and low-complexity video for the Internet; other uses include small camera devices that record to disk or memory chips.1 The Simple Profile permits the use of the following visual object type: • Simple: rectangular video, uses intra (I) and predicted (P) video object planes (VOPs, the MPEG-4 term for frames). The Simple Profile permits the use of three compression levels with bit rates from 64 kbps in Level 1 to 384 kbps in Level 3. |
| Production phase | Generally a final-state (end-user delivery) format. |
| Relationship to other formats | |
| 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. |
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| Documentation | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Adoption | Actual adoption not known to the compilers of this document. One indicator, however, is the specification for the video-capable iPod introduced by Apple in late 2005: MPEG-4 video up to 2.5 mbps, 480 x 480, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile, associated with AAC_MP4_LC audio. |
| Licensing and patents | 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. |
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| Normal rendering | Good support. |
| Clarity (high image resolution) | See MP4_FF_2 and MPEG-4_V. Other profiles will produce greater clarity than the Simple Profile at a given picture size, data rate, and encoding algorithm. |
| Functionality beyond normal rendering | See MP4_FF_2. |
| Tag | Value | Note |
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| Filename extension | mp4 |
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| Internet Media Type | See MP4_FF_2 |
**See MP4_FF_2 |
| Magic numbers | See MP4_FF_2 |
**See MP4_FF_2 |
| File type brand (ISO Base Media File Format) | 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. |
| Other | 00000000, 00000001, 00000010 |
Profile and level indicators. For profile_and_level_indication for Simple Profile, levels 1, 2, and 3. From Annex G of ISO/IEC 14496-2:2004, pp. 454-55. |
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| History |
1Pereira, Fernando, and Touradj Ebrahimi, The MPEG-4 Book, Upper Saddle River, NJ: IMSC Press, 2002, pp. 597-8.
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