MPEG-4 Systems Tutorial - Standard Media Types (original) (raw)

MPEG-4 Stream Types & ObjectTypeIndication

Currently supported media types in MPEG-4 and related streamType and objectTypeIndication:

Media Description objectTypeIndication streamType
Object Descriptor Stream MPEG4Systems1 / 0x01 ObjectDescriptor / 0x01
BIFS Stream version 1 MPEG4Systems1 / 0x01 SceneDescription / 0x03
BIFS Stream version 2 MPEG4Systems2 / 0x02 SceneDescription / 0x03
MPEG-4 Visual Stream MPEG4Visual / 0x20 Visual / 0x04
MPEG-4 Audio Stream MPEG4Audio / 0x40 Audio / 0x05
MPEG-2 Visual Stream (profiles Simple, Main, SNR, Spatial, High, 422) MPEG2VisualSimple / 0x60 MPEG2VisualMain / 0x61 MPEG2VisualSNR / 0x62 MPEG2VisualSpatial / 0x63 MPEG2VisualHigh / 0x64 MPEG2Visual422 / 0x65 Visual / 0x04
MPEG-2 Audio Stream / Part 7 -AAC (profiles Main, Low Complexity, Scalable Sampling Rate) MPEG2AudioMain / 0x66 MPEG2AudioLowComplexity / 0x67 MPEG2AudioScaleableSamplingRate / 0x68 Audio / 0x05
MPEG-2 Audio Stream Part 3 MPEG2AudioPart3 / 0x69 Audio / 0x05
MPEG-1 visual stream MPEG1Visual / 0x6A Visual / 0x04
MPEG-1 audio stream Part 3 MPEG1Audio / 0x6B Audio / 0x05
JPEG Visual stream JPEG / 0x6C Visual / 0x04

A Registration Authority has been established in order to assign new objectTypeIndication values for other media types (PNG, OGG, ...). Apple Computer is kindly running this task, and a web site is available at http://www.mp4ra.orgfor more information.

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