Talk:Container format (digital)

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[edit] AV only?

Aren't there possibilities other than audio and video? I would agree that the idea is usually used to distinguish between different compression formats (whether lossless or lossy) - as opposed to uncompressed data - you don't get a format that is designed to contain spreadsheets in e.g. either CSV or Excel format. But what about images? I'm thinking of TIFF in particular, which allows a number of different compressed image formats.

[edit] VBR Delivery as apposed to encoding

I believe that an item for varaible bit rate delivery should be added to the Issues section. For example, depending on the bandwidth connecting the viewer to the video stream, one could view the same video in a lower resulotion/frame rate/bitdepth/artifacts/etc by skipping chunks of the file.

Nice idea, but the way you put that sounds like original research :-P.