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Formats of Audio Video Media File Systems & Files

Which file system types & file formats are compatible with which software Tools & options, & which hardware.

http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/dvd/formats/ by Julian Stacey

Index

File Systems

Before one considers file content, one must ask: Can the device read the file system type that contains the file ?
File System Matsui Elta Toshiba Iomega Humax Comment
Ext2       OK OK  
Ext3       OK Screen claims OK. Access with FreeBSD
FAT16 sysid 6     OK   Screen claims OK.  
FAT32 sysid 11         OK  
FAT32 LBA sysid 12       OK OK Files < 4G
FAT32       OK    
Mac OS Extended (HFS+)(not journaled)       OK    
NTFS       OK Fails That NTFS fails, suggests its a Linux box.
DVD OK OK        

Formats of Audio Video Files

`File` Beginning `File` Size `File` FPS `File` Video `File` Audio Ext Result
Matsui
Result
Elta
Result
Toshiba
Result
Iomega
Result
Humax
Comment
ISO Media, Apple QuickTime movie           Fails          
ISO Media, MPEG v4 system, version 2           Fails          
Microsoft ASF         .wmv & Faked as .mpg Fails   Does Not plays this (If with name .wmv, not tried with faked name .mpg)      
          .wmv   Did not list for playing.        
MPEG ADTS, layer III, v2.5,       64 kBits, 12 kHz, Monaural .mp3 OK.          
          .mpa   Did not list for playing.        
MPEG sequence, v1, system multiplex         .mpa     Does Not plays this      
MPEG sequence, v1, system multiplex         .mpeg     OK      
MPEG sequence, v1, system multiplex         .mpg OK   OK      
MPEG sequence, v1, system multiplex         .wma Fails          
MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex         .mpg To Test   OK     From acidrip if clicking ".mpg"
MPEG sequence, v2, program multiplex         .vob OK OK       From XP/2
From vobcopy -m
(Preceeded by mdconfig -a -t vnode -f thing.iso; mount -t udf /mnt /dev/md0; )
.VOB Not seen on one mass production commercial DVD as "Input/output error" probably as copy protected, msdosfs deliberately damaged, supposed to instead go through DVD headers).
.VOB Seen on a limited production quantity commercial DVD.
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI 720 x 406 25.00 FFMpeg MPEG-4 Dolby AC3
(stereo, 48000 Hz)
.avi   Fails.       Default output of acidrip with video_codec=lavc.
(A vob of 40.4 Meg via acidrip produced a .avi of 17.8 M LAVC & 13.9 M XVID)
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI, 720 x 406 25.00 XviD Dolby AC3
(stereo, 48000 Hz)
.avi           My Output of acidrip with video_codec=xvid.
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI 320 x 240 ~15 Motion JPEG uncompressed PCM (mono, 11024 Hz) .avi   Lists, but Fails To Play        
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI 480 x 266 ~25 Microsoft MPEG-4 v2 MPEG-1 Layer 3
(stereo, 44100 Hz)
.avi Fails          
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI 480 x 266 ~25 Microsoft MPEG-4 v2 MPEG-1 Layer 3
(stereo, 44100 Hz)
Faked as .mpg Fails          
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI 720 x 405 25.00   MPEG-1 Layer 3
(stereo, 48000 Hz)
.avi           Output from acidrip ) video_codec=raw These come out far Larger than vobs from DVD
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI 720 x 540 25.00 XviD Dolby AC3
(stereo, 48000 Hz)
.avi & Faked as .mpg Fails          
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI 720 x 576 25.00 DivX 4 MPEG-1 Layer 3
(stereo, 48000 Hz)
.avi Fails         mplayer (with no flags) could not do a seek on this, it needed "mplayer -idx" to do a seek, & took a Long time to start, (presumably to read 1.5G & index it ?), I've not tried Elta with it. But Elta can't always seek, so maybe same scenario.
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI 720 x 576 25.00 DivX 4 MPEG-1 Layer 3
(stereo, 48000 Hz)
Faked as .mpg Fails          
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI 720 x { 406 | 540 } 25.00 XviD Dolby AC3
(stereo, 48000 Hz)
.avi   OK        
RIFF (little-endian) data, AVI 720 x { 406 | 540 }, 25.00 XviD MPEG-1 Layer 3
(stereo, 48000 Hz)
.avi   OK I think        
? ? ? ? ? .avi         Fails Plays on MS Media Player
AMV         .amv           Used by Odys X30V an mp3 player
UDF         .udf           mplayer OK with UDF V.1.5
VLC Not OK with UDF V.1.5 I think.
          .ogm           mplayer OK with "Ogg data, OGM video (XviD)"
          .ts         .ts is what Humax generates along with 2 other files. It cant read single .ts files mplayer OK"
`File` Beginning `File` Size `File` FPS `File` Video `File` Audio Ext Result
Matsui
Result
Elta
Result
Toshiba
Result
Iomega
Result
Humax
Comment

Devices

External Links On Formats

Humax
  • Generates triplets of { .ts .nts & .hmt }.
  • Fails to play a .ts file (from Dreambox) - Maybe it needs the full triplet of files ?
Dreambox
  • Generates .ts with several (more than 2) apart from the .ts
wikipedia Name Comment
  .avi Audio Video Interleave Don't know if it allows multiple languages.
  .mp3 Music  
  .mpa MPEG audio stream, layer 1,2,3 AWAVE  
  .mpg    
  .vob Video Object  
  .wmv Windows Media Video  
  .ts
  Comparison of container formats  
  List of file formats (alphabetical)  

FPS

I guess most of the discs in Europe are 25 FPS because PAL TVs started as 50 FPS, but interlaced, ie 25 real new frames per sec. I guess the 15 FPS images I tested came from USA, that has 60 FPS NTSC, presumably also interleaved, & divided by a further 2 beyond to save space. Corrections
wikipedia DVD-Video

Digital & Satllite TV Links

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