Specs & Standards
Explore 40 curated Specs & Standards resources in Standards & Industry — tools, guides, and references for video developers on Awesome Video.
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Specs & Standards is a focused collection within Standards & Industry, with 40 curated resources. Notable topics include MPEG & Forums and Official Specs.
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- CMAF Specification (ISO/IEC 23000-19:2018)The Common Media Application Format (CMAF) standard defines a container format (based on fragmented MP4) for segmented media delivery that…
- DASH-IF IOP v3.2 Change Summary (vs v3.1)Document detailing changes between DASH-IF Interoperability Points versions 3.1 and 3.2 for implementers.
- Encrypted Media Extensions (W3C Recommendation)The W3C specification for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), which defines a browser API for playback of encrypted content using content dec…
- How Do I Become an ANSI MemberInformation about joining ANSI, the American National Standards Institute, which develops and maintains technical standards across various…
- ISO/IEC 14496-12 (MPEG-4 Part 12) ISO Base Media File FormatThe ISO base media file format standard (used by MP4, MOV, etc.), defining the general structure for time-based media files. It's a foundat…
- Matroska SpecificationThe open specification for the Matroska multimedia container, which is the basis for MKV files. It defines how video, audio, subtitle, and…
- Media Source Extensions (W3C Recommendation)The W3C specification for Media Source Extensions (MSE), an API that allows JavaScript to feed media to the HTML5 video or audio tag for ad…
- MovieLabs Production Technology SpecificationsConcrete specification documents (Ontology for Media Creation, Media Creation Cloud, security architecture) supporting the 2030 Vision for…
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)An organization that develops and maintains standards for cinema and broadcast, including many video formats (e.g., SMPTE ST 2110 for IP vi…
- Ultra HD Forum GuidelinesIndustry guidelines produced by the Ultra HD Forum, covering end-to-end workflows for Ultra HD content (4K, HDR, Wide Color Gamut, Next-Gen…
- 151st MPEG Meeting ReportOfficial MPEG.org meeting report summarizing outcomes and calls-for-proposals from the 151st MPEG (ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29) meeting.
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29 Committee PageOfficial ISO committee catalog and ballot status page for all MPEG coding standards (SC 29).
- Inside MPEG's Ambitious Plan to Launch 3 Video Codecs in 2020The pace of innovation is getting faster and the demands on video codecs are getting greater. MPEG's three-part plan answers questions of r…
- MPEG AboutOverview page providing information about the Motion Picture Experts Group organization and its role in developing multimedia standards.
- MPEG Basics (Chiariglione)Explanation of MPEG standardization process and organizational structure by MPEG founder Leonardo Chiariglione.
- MPEG Immersive Video (MIV) DocumentsPublic numbered MPEG WG04 N-documents including test models and common test conditions for immersive video coding.
- MPEG MeetingsDirectory of MPEG organization meetings where standards development, voting, and technical discussions take place.
- MPEG home pageOfficial website of MPEG, the international standardization body responsible for multimedia compression and streaming standards.
- MPEG: What Happened?At the end of last month, MPEG co-founder Leonardo Chiariglione announced the 'MPEG is closed.' That's not quite true, but it is undergoing…
- Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)The official forum that develops international standards for compression, decompression, processing and coded representation of moving pict…
- Recent Standard Development Activities on Video Coding for MachinesAcademic paper documenting the MPEG Video Coding for Machines (VCM) ad-hoc group's standardization process.
- Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG)Overview of ITU-T's Video Coding Experts Group and its joint work with MPEG (JVET) developing codecs beyond VVC.
- 2025 SMPTE Standards Round-UpOfficial SMPTE blog summarizing the year's standards development activity across the organization.
- AMWA IS-04 — NMOS Discovery and Registration SpecificationCanonical rendered spec for NMOS registration and query APIs used to discover senders/receivers in SMPTE ST 2110 IP production networks.