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 | Matroska File Format with FFV1 video encoding |
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| Description | Matroska file containing video essence encoded as FFV1. |
| Production phase | Middle state, used for storage or archiving |
| Relationship to other formats | |
| Subtype of | Matroska, Matroska Multimedia Container |
| Contains | FFV1, FF Video Codec 1 |
| May contain | Sound essences and other elements, not described at this time. |
| LC experience or existing holdings | None |
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| Disclosure | Both Mastroska and FFV1 are open-source specifications. Matroska is an offshoot of the Multimedia Container Format project. FFV1 comes from the FFmpeg project. |
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| Documentation | The Matroska specification is published online at http://www.matroska.org/technical/specs/index.html. The FFV1 specification is maintained by the FFmpeg project's current leader Michael Niedermayer. |
| Adoption | Modest adoption of Matroska and FFV1 in heritage repositories. |
| Licensing and patents | See Matroska and FFV1. |
| Transparency | See Matroska and FFV1. |
| Self-documentation | See Matroska and FFV1. |
| External dependencies | See Matroska and FFV1. |
| Technical protection considerations | See Matroska and FFV1. |
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