[Mp4-tech] References for Container Formats

[Dave Singer]

At 2:52  -0700 12/10/06, abhishek jain wrote:
>Dear All
>
>I am new to container formats. Currently I am going
>thro ISO base media file format. I need to work
>specifically on mp4 file format.
>Please provide your inputs to help me understand the
>container formats in general and mp4 particularly.
>Where can I find related docs(freely available) and
>also the source code for mp4 parser. Also I need to
>know if any open source mp4 composer is available.

Go to <http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/> and click on 'technologies' 
under 'documents' and you will find white papers etc. on parts 12, 14 
and 15 of mpeg-4.
FFMpeg, GPAC, and a number of other projects have implementations of 
the file format.  In addition, reference code is available from 
<http://www.mp4ra.org> on request.
Finally, the full part 12 standard is freely available from ISO.
<http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/fetch/2000/2489/Ittf_Home/PubliclyAvailableStandards.htm>
Hope this helps.
>Regards
>Abhishek
>
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David Singer
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