multimedia container


Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus.

multimedia container

A digital file format that holds audio, video and subtitles. Containers support a variety of audio and video compression methods and are not tied to one particular audio or video codec. AVI was the first Windows container format, and Matroska/MKV is a popular open source container. MPEG-4, QuickTime and RealMedia are also A/V containers. See codec examples.

Multimedia Container Examples

   Microsoft     AVI

   Apple         QuickTime

   Streaming     RealMedia

   Open Source   Matroska

   MPEG-4        MP4
Copyright © 1981-2019 by The Computer Language Company Inc. All Rights reserved. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction is strictly prohibited without permission from the publisher.
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
All the contents are then stored on a 3GP multimedia container.
Secure, portable, and customizable video lectures for e-learning on the move
Microsoft's Audio Video Interleave (AVI) was used as implementation multimedia container format.
The next two approaches for augmenting data into multimedia container format are common: interleaving or non-interleaving (Fig.
Data structures for road condition AVI file video augmentation

Encyclopedia browser ?
Full browser ?