Format

MPEG-1 Elementary Stream

Summary

Name: MPEG-1 Elementary Stream
Identifiers: PUID: fmt/649
Format type: Video
Description: MPEG-1 is a lossy compression standard for video and audio, intended for use in Digital Storage Media (DSM) such as VideoCD and DVD (at the same encoding standard as VCD). It is designed to handle video frame-sizes of 352 x 288px, at a frame-rate of 25 frames per second (PAL) and a data rate of around 1.2Mbits/s; audio: up to 320 kbits/s (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III, *.mp3). MPEG-1 supports random access to stream content on playback. MPEG-1 Video supports only 'progressive' frame video. MPEG-1 compression can be relatively inefficient by modern standards. An MPG-1 ‘Elementary’ stream (ES) file (*.m1v) contains either a single video or audio stream (e.g. *.mp3). ES files are generally intended for video editing or other intermediate use, where separate audio content can be ultimately blended ('interleaved' or ‘muxed’) with a video stream to produce an output file containing both audio and video for synchronised playback.
File extensions: mpg, mpeg, m1v
Submitted by: Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

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Provenance: 11/2023 (v.115)- Modified the offset values from null to 0 as part of a project to match PRONOM data with the xsd standard. Internally researched.