

It reduces or completely discards information in certain frequencies and areas of the picture that the human eye has limited ability to fully perceive. MPEG-1 Video exploits perceptual compression methods to significantly reduce the data rate required by a video stream. Each track either contains a digitally-encoded media stream (using a specific format) or a data reference to the media stream located in another file. The format specifies a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks, each of which stores a particular type of data: audio, video, or text (e.g.

It is designed to compress VHS-quality raw digital video and CD audio down to 1.5 Mbit/s (26:1 and 6:1 compression ratios respectively) without excessive quality loss, making video CDs, digital cable/satellite TV and digital audio broadcasting (DAB) possible. MPEG-1 is a standard for lossy compression of video and audio. Because both the QuickTime and MP4 container formats can use the same MPEG-4 formats, they are mostly interchangeable in a QuickTime-only environment. The International Organization for Standardization approved the QuickTime file format as the basis of the MPEG-4 file format. QuickTime File Format (QTFF) is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework. Motion Picture Experts Group File Interchange Format
