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 | AVI File Format with FFV1 video encoding |
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| Description | AVI file containing video essence encoded as FFV1. |
| Production phase | Middle state, used for storage or archiving |
| Relationship to other formats | |
| Subtype of | AVI, AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) |
| 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 | AVI is fully documented and a proprietary file format developed by Microsoft and IBM as part of RIFF, the Resource Interchange File Format for Windows 3.1. FFV1 is an open-source specification and comes from the FFmpeg project. |
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| Documentation | See AVI. The FFV1 specification is maintained by the FFmpeg project's current leader Michael Niedermayer. |
| Adoption | Modest adoption of AVI and FFV1 in heritage repositories. One notable adopter of the AVI/FFV1 combination is the Austrian Mediathek. Information about their use of FFV1 can be found here. |
| Licensing and patents | See AVI and FFV1. |
| Transparency | See AVI and FFV1. |
| Self-documentation | See AVI and FFV1. |
| External dependencies | See AVI and FFV1. |
| Technical protection considerations | See AVI and FFV1. |
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| Filename extension | See related format. | See AVI. |
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