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Posted by NRen2k5 on 03/20/06 00:37
audiohead wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
>> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:45:19 +0800, Man-wai Chang wrote:
>>
>>> audiohead wrote:
>>>> MPEG-4 replaced the "ultimate mp3 experience" a long time ago. Dude,
>>>> MP3 and Winamp are fucking dinosaurs like Dadion.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> What're the advantages of MP4 against MP3? And it seems that MP4 is a M$
>>> standard, not intended for free+public use.
>> "MPEG-4 Part 14, 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 audio and digital video streams,
>> especially those defined by MPEG, but also can be used to store other data
>> such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats,
>> MPEG-4 Part 14 allows streaming over the Internet. The official filename
>> extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files is .mp4, thus the container format is
>> often referred to simply as MP4."
>>
>> "While the only official file extension defined by the standard is .mp4,
>> various file extensions are commonly used to indicate intended content.
>>
>> * Audio generally uses the .mp4 and .m4a extensions.
>> o Audio that is protected by FairPlay digital rights management
>> as sold through the iTunes Music Store uses the .m4p extension.
>> o Audio book and podcast files, which also contain data such as
>> chapter markers, images, and hyperlinks, use the .m4b extension.
>> * Video generally uses the .mp4 and .m4v extensions, sometimes also
>> .mp4v. * 3G mobile phones use 3GP, a simplified version of MPEG-4 Part
>> 14, with the .3gp and .3g2 extensions. These files also store
>> non-MPEG-4 data (H.263, AMR, TX3G).
>>
>> The common, but non-standard use of the extensions .m4a and .m4v is due to
>> the popularity of Apple Computer's iPod and the iTunes Music Store."
>>
>> (from Wikipedia)
>
> And what exactly is the point of all this useless verbiage?
Seems to me like a lazy correction to the comment about MP4 being an MS
standard.
- NRen2k5
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