MPEG-4 Part 14

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MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 (formally ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003) is a multimedia container format standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. It is most commonly used to store digital video and digital audio streams, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, MPEG-4 Part 14 supports streaming over the Internet. A separate hint track is used to include streaming information in the file. The official default extension is .mp4. Some devices advertised as MP4 players are simply MP3 players that also play AMV video or some other video formats, and do not necessarily play the MPEG-4 Part 14 format.

Libraries

Bento4 MP4 & DASH Class Library, SDK and Tools

https://www.bento4.com/

macmade/MP4Parse (Boost license)

C++ library for MP4 file parsing.

https://github.com/macmade/MP4Parse

Martchus/tagparser (GPL2.0 license)

C++ library for reading and writing MP4/M4A/AAC (iTunes), ID3, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and Matroska tags

https://github.com/Martchus/tagparser

See also

• MPEG4
• Media Streaming
  • Media Streaming#Demo video - Collection of demo video URLs.

Favorite site

• Wikipedia (en) MPEG-4 Part 14
• MPEG-4 File Format, Version 2 ¹

References