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MP4 is a popular video format used to share, download, and stream video content. In addition to video, the format can store audio, images, and also subtitles. It is a container format, meaning it can store various types of audio and video, as long as they are encoded in a codec supported by the MP4 format.

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MP4 provides strong compression, which is lossy but retains high video quality. This makes it highly suitable for streaming and downloading videos over the Internet. It can package multiple media types including video, audio, images, and 3D imagery, together with complex metadata, making it possible to deliver navigation and other interactive elements to viewers.

MPEG-4 Part 14: MP4 (ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003), or version 2 of the MPEG-4 file format, replaced version 1 in 2003. It used the structure defined by the ISO base media file format (ISO/IEC 14496-12:2004). Extensions over the ISO format enabled support for MPEG-4 features like visual and audio codecs (other ISO-based formats also use these extensions).

MP4 is a container file format, which does not have a strict structure. It is extensible, meaning that you can define a custom structure and hierarchy for the data in an MP4 file. MP4 files are divided into two sections:

AVI has more efficient data compression than other formats, including MP4. However, the average file sizes are enormous (2 or 3 GB/minute), making it unsuitable for uses with limited storage and requiring compression. MP4 is a lossy compression format requiring less storage space, with smaller output files than AVI, and is compatible with more media players.

MP4 is compatible with more devices, including mobile and desktop, and can also support online streaming on various browsers. Many sites are joining YouTube to support MP4 HEVC files. WebM lacks native support from popular devices and browsers like Safari and iPhone.

The H.264 and VP8 (Vorbis) are two competing compression codecs for HTML5 video files. Google discontinued H.264 support on Chrome in 2011 in favor of VP8, but H.264 remains the leading codec for mobile and web streaming.

MP4 is a popular file format supported by most platforms, and WebM is a modern video format that provides advanced compression. Cloudinary can help you automatically convert video files to these modern video formats for faster loading, and an enhanced user experience.

ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003 specifies the MP4 file format as derived from ISO/IEC 14496-12 and ISO/IEC 15444-12, the ISO base media file format. It revises and completely replaces Clause 13 of ISO/IEC 14496-1, in which the file format was previously specified.

The ISO base media file format (ISOBMFF) is a container file format that defines a general structure for files that contain time-based multimedia data such as video and audio.[2][3]It is standardized in ISO/IEC 14496-12, a.k.a. MPEG-4 Part 12, and was formerly also published as ISO/IEC 15444-12, a.k.a. JPEG 2000 Part 12.

It is designed as a flexible, extensible format that facilitates interchange, management, editing and presentation of the media. The presentation may be local, or via a network or other stream delivery mechanism. The file format is designed to be independent of any particular network protocol while enabling support for them in general.[3]

The format has become very widely used for media file storage and as the basis for various other media file formats (e.g. the MP4 and 3GP container formats), and its widespread use was recognized by a Technology & Engineering Emmy Award presented on 4 November 2021 by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.[4][5][6]

The ISO base media file format is directly based on Apple's QuickTime container format.[7][8][9][10][11] It was developed by MPEG (in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29, originally Working Group 11 MPEG, currently Working Group 3 MPEG Systems). The first MP4 file format specification was created on the basis of the QuickTime format specification published in 2001.[12] The MP4 file format known as "version 1" was published in 2001 as ISO/IEC 14496-1:2001, as revision of the MPEG-4 Part 1: Systems.[13][14][15] In 2003, the first version of the MP4 file format was revised and replaced by MPEG-4 Part 14: MP4 file format (ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003), commonly known as MPEG-4 file format "version 2".[16]

The MP4 file format was generalized into the ISO base media file format (ISO/IEC 14496-12:2004 or ISO/IEC 15444-12:2004), which defines a general structure for time-based media files. It is used as the basis for other file formats in the family such as MP4, 3GP, and Motion JPEG 2000).[7]

The ISO base media file format is designed as an extensible file format. A list of all registered extensions for the ISO base media file format is published on the official registration authority website, www.mp4ra.org.[33] The registration authority for code-points (identifier values) in "MP4 Family" files is Apple Inc. and it is named in Annex D (informative) in MPEG-4 Part 12.[8] Codec designers should register the codes they invent, but the registration is not mandatory[34] and some of invented and used code-points are not registered.[35] When someone is creating a new specification derived from the ISO base media file format, all the existing specifications should be used both as examples and a source of definitions and technology. If an existing specification already covers how a particular media type is stored in the file format (e.g. MPEG-4 audio or video in MP4), that definition should be used and a new one should not be invented.[8]

MPEG has standardized a number of specifications extending the ISO base media file format: The MP4 file format (ISO/IEC 14496-14) defined some extensions over ISO base media file format to support MPEG-4 visual/audio codecs and various MPEG-4 Systems features such as object descriptors and scene descriptions. The MPEG-4 Part 3 (MPEG-4 Audio) standard also defined storage of some audio compression formats. Storage of MPEG-1/2 Audio (MP3, MP2, MP1) in the ISO base media file format was defined in ISO/IEC 14496-3:2001/Amd 3:2005.[36] The Advanced Video Coding (AVC) file format (ISO/IEC 14496-15) defined support for H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compression.[37] The High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is an image container format using the ISO base media file format as the basis. While HEIF can be used with any image compression format, it specifically includes the support for HEVC intra-coded images and HEVC-coded image sequences taking advantage of inter-picture prediction.

Some of the above-mentioned MPEG standard extensions are used by other formats based on ISO base media file format (e.g. 3GP).[32] The 3GPP file format (.3gp) specification also defined extensions to support H.263 video, AMR-NB, AMR-WB, AMR-WB+ audio and 3GPP Timed Text in files based on the ISO base media file format.[38] The 3GPP2 file format (.3g2) defined extensions for usage of EVRC, SMV or 13K (QCELP) voice compression formats.[32] The JPEG 2000 specification (ISO/IEC 15444-3) defined usage of Motion JPEG 2000 video compression and uncompressed audio (PCM) in the ISO base media file format (.mj2). The "DVB File Format" (.dvb) defined by DVB Project allowed storage of DVB services in the ISO base media file format. It allows the storage of audio, video and other content in any of three main ways: encapsulated in a MPEG transport stream, stored as a reception hint track; encapsulated in an RTP stream, stored as a reception hint track or stored directly as media tracks.[39][40] The MPEG-21 File Format (.m21, .mp21) defined the storage of an MPEG-21 Digital Item in the ISO base media file format, with some or all of its ancillary data (such as movies, images or other non-XML data) within the same file.[41][42] The OMA DRM Content Format (.dcf) specification from Open Mobile Alliance defined the content format for DRM protected encrypted media objects and associated metadata.[43][44] There are also other extensions, such as ISMA ISMACryp specification for encrypted/protected audio and video,[45][46] G.719 audio compression specification,[47] AC3 and E-AC-3 audio compression,[48] DTS audio compression,[49] Dirac video compression,[50][51] VC-1 video compression specification and others, which are named on the MP4 Registration authority's website.[33]

There are some extensions of the ISO base media file format that were not registered by the MP4 Registration authority. Adobe Systems introduced the F4V file format for Flash Video in 2007 and said it is based on the ISO base media file format. The F4V file format was not registered by the MP4 registration authority, but the F4V technical specification is publicly available. This format can contain H.264 video compression and MP3 or AAC audio compression. In addition, F4V file format can contain data corresponding to the ActionScript Message Format and still frame of video data using image formats GIF, JPEG and PNG.[35][52][53]Microsoft Corporation announced a file format based on the ISO base media file format in 2009 called ISMV (Smooth Streaming format), also known as Protected Interoperable File Format (PIFF). As announced, this format can for example contain VC-1, WMA, H.264 and AAC compression formats.[54] Microsoft published a Protected Interoperable File Format (PIFF) specification in 2010. It defined another usage of multiple encryption and DRM systems in a single file container.[55][56] PIFF brand was registered by the MP4 registration authority in 2010. Some extensions used by this format (e.g. for WMA support) were not registered. Usage of the WMA compression format in the ISO base media file format was not publicly documented.[57]

The ISO base media file format includes timing, structure, and media information for timed sequences of media data, such as audio-visual presentations. The file structure is object-oriented. A file can be decomposed into basic objects very simply, and the structure of the objects is implied from their type.

Files conforming to the ISO base media file format are formed as a series of objects, called "boxes". All data is contained in boxes, and there is no other data within the file. This includes any initial signature required by the specific file format. The "box" is an object-oriented building block defined by a unique type identifier and length. It was called an "atom" in some specifications (e.g. the first definition of the MP4 file format).[2] 041b061a72