https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Boylan 2026-04-28T12:54:05Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.44.2 https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Container_formats&diff=19781 2009-10-12T22:58:09Z

<p>Boylan: typo</p> <hr /> <div>A '''container format''' is a file structure to combine audio/video data, tags, menus, subtitles and some other media elements (e.g. seeking ability, chapters...). Flexible containers can hold any type of music file, for example you could put an [[MP3]] inside an Ogg container, although that would probably just lead to confusion...<br /> <br /> The most popular containers are:<br /> * [[AVI]] - the standard Microsoft Windows container<br /> * [[MOV]] - standard Apple MacOS container<br /> * [[MP4]] - standard container for the [[MPEG-4]] multimedia portfolio<br /> * [[Ogg]] - standard container for Xiph.org codecs<br /> * [[ASF]] - standard container for Microsoft WMA and WMV<br /> * [[Matroska]] - not really standard for any codec or system, but still popular in the digital video scene<br /> <br /> Some containers are exclusive to audio. Examples are [[WAV]] (Windows platform) and [[AIFF]] (MacOS platform)<br /> <br /> [[Category:Technical]]</div>

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