FileFormat

The following tables lists final and current documents produced by the File Format group of MPEG. Final documents are published by ISO, most of the time for a fee and sometimes free-of-charge (e.g. ISOBMFF used to be free of charge but is no longer unfortunately). MPEG Documents are usually internal documents only available to MPEG members, but some of them are public (e.g. working drafts, technologies under considerations, defect reports, etc.) and on MPEG’s public site. The tables provide some links that are only accessible to MPEG members, and some that are public.

In order to understand the table below, it may be useful to understand the timeline of a File Format standard, as follows:

Contributions proposing new technologies are submitted by companies and evaluated by the group. They are either noted, or accepted. If accepted and there is a consensus, the technology is added to a Working Draft (WD). If the technology is interesting but has not reached a consensus yet, it goes into a document called Defect Report or Technologies Under Considerations (TuC) to get improved. It can move from TuC or Defect Report to the WD when a consensus is reached.
When decided by the group, usually after 3 months, the WD is converted to a Committee Draft (CD). This triggers an official ballot that lasts 2 months (for amendments) or 3 months (for new standard).
When all the comments on the CD ballot are received and processed, a DAM or DIS is produced. This triggers a second official ballot that lasts 5-6 months.
When all the comments on the DAM/DIS ballot are received and processed, a FDAM/FDIS is produced. At this stage, the technology is frozen. This triggers a third ballot that lasts usually 2 months.
When all FDAM/FDIS (editorial) comments are received and processed, the document is delivered to ISO/IEC for publication. This can take several months (but sometimes several years!).

14496-12 | ISOBMFF

| Document Title | Link to latest public document (if any) | MPEG output date | MPEG output number (MPEG-Member only) | ISO status
(public page and editor-only) | Description | | ———————|————————————————————————– | —————- | ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- | ———————————————————————————————————————————————- | —————————————————————————————————————— | | Defect Report | 2023-05-19 | 2024-07-26 | MDS24120_WG03_N01274 | N/A | | | Technologies under Consideration | 2024-07-26 | 2024-07-26 | MDS24119_WG03_N01273 | N/A | | | Amd.2 to the 8th Edition | 2024-05-21 | 2024-05-21 | MDS23987_WG03_N01252 | TBD
[editor-link] | Tools for enhanced CMAF and DASH integration| | Amd.1 to the 8th Edition | 2023-05-15 | 2023-08-29 | MDS22984_WG03_N00986 | CDAM1 | Support for T.35, original sample duration and other improvements| | 8th edition | 2023-02-13 | 2024-11-03 | MDS24116_WG03_N01270 | FDIS
[editor-link] | Terminology cleanup (sample description, template, predefined, …), EDRAP, preselection, essential sample groups, … (was Amd.1 to 7th edition)| | 7th edition | | 2021-05-18 | MDS20295_WG03_N00233 | Published on 2022-01
[editor-link] | Integrates 6th edition and subsequent documents below. | | Amd.1 to the 6th Edition | | 2020-11-11 | MDS19723_WG03_N00047 | DAMD | Support for new media types (haptics, volumetric visual). Never published as an amendment but integrated into the 7th edition | | 6th Edition | | 2020-06-19 | 19301 | Published 2020-12
[editor-link] | | | AMD.3 to the tentative 6th edition | | 2019-07-12 | 18622 | | Corrected Audio Handling | | AMD.2 to tentative 6th edition | | 2019-04-08 | 18418 | | Box relative data addressing | | AMD.1 to the tentative 6th edition | | 2018-11-19 | 17972 | | Compact Sample-to-Group, new capabilities for tracks, etc. | | Cor.1 to the tentative 6th edition | | 2018-08-20 | 17792 | | | | Tentative 6th Edition | | 2017-10-30 | 17277 | | | | COR2 to the 5th Edition | | 2017-08-08 | 16932 | | | | Amd.2 to the 5th Edition | | 2017-05-15 | 16783 | AMD | Support for image file format | | Amd.1 to 5th Edition | | 2016-10-21 | 16417 | AMD | Enhanced DRC | | Cor.1 to 5th Edition | | 2016-06-23 | 16163 | | |

14496-14 | MP4

14496-15 | NALUFF

| Document Title | Link to latest public document (if any) | MPEG output date | MPEG output number (MPEG-Member only) | ISO status
(public page and editor-only) | Comments | | ——————-|—————————————————————————- | —————- | ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- | ———————————————————————————————————————————————- | —————————————————————————————————————— | | TuC |2023-10-24 | 2023-10-24 | MDS23205_WG03_N01052 | N/A | | | Amd.2 to 7th | 2024-06-05 | 2024-06-05 | MDS23990_WG03_N01255 | TBD
[editor link] | Improvement of carriage of L-HEVC | | Amd.1 to 7th | 2023-02-07 | 2024-05-28 | MDS23851_WG03_N01241 | FDAM
[editor link] | Support for neural-network post-filter supplemental enhancement information and other improvements. Was Amd 3 to the 6th edition.| | 7th edition | | 2023-12-12 | MDS23225_WG03_N01072 | Published 2024-10
[editor link] | | | Amd.2 to 6th | 2023-02-13 | 2023-02-13 | MDS22606_WG03_N00864 | DAM
[editor link] | Picture-in-picture support and other extensions. Never published as FDAM, but integrated into the 7th edition | | Amd.1 to 6th | | 2022-02-21 | MDS21211_WG03_N00490 | FDAM1
[editor link] | Was Amd 3 of 5th edition Support for LCEVC | | Revised text of 6th edition | | 2022-05-04 | MDS21454_WG03_N00561 | Published 2022-10
[editor link] | | | Amd.2| | | | DAMD2 | Carriage of VVC and EVC in ISOBMFF. Never published as a final amendment but became 6th edition | | Amd.1 | | 2020-06-17 | 19380 | AMD1 | Improved support for tiling and layering | | 5th Ed | | 2019-05-03 | 18241 | Published [editor link] | |

14496-30 | Timed Text in MP4

14496-32 | File Format Conformance

23001-7 | Common Encryption

23001-10 | Metadata Metrics

23001-12 | Sample Variants

23001-14 | Partial Files

23001-15 | Carriage of Web Resources

| Document Title | Link to latest public document (if any) | MPEG output date | MPEG output number (MPEG-Member only) | ISO status
(public page and editor-only) | Comments | | —————–|—————————————————————————— | —————- | ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- | ———————————————————————————————————————————————- | —————————————————————————————————————— | | 1st Ed | | Jul-19 | 18639 | Published [editor link] | |

23001-16 | Derived Visual Tracks

23001-17 | Uncompressed Videos and Images

23001-18 | Event Message

23008-12 | Image File Format

| Document Title | Link to latest public document (if any) | MPEG output date | MPEG output number (MPEG-Member only) | ISO status
(public page and editor-only) | Comments | | ——————|—————————————————————————– | —————- | ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- | ———————————————————————————————————————————————- | —————————————————————————————————————— | | Defect Report |2023-01-24 | 2023-01-24 | MDS22287_WG03_N00763 | | | | TuC | 2024-08-08 | 2024-07-26 | MDS24145_WG03_N01299 | | | | Amd.2 to 3rd Edition | 2024-08-08 | 2024-08-08 | MDS24143_WG03_N01297 | TBD [editor link] | Low-overhead image file format | | Amd.1 to 3rd Edition | 2024-05-21 | 2023-11-13 | MDS24143_WG03_N01297 | DAM [editor link] | Support for tone map derived items and other improvements | | 3rd Edition | | 2024-07-20 | MDS24331_WG03_N01333 | DIS [editor link] | Support for progressive rendering signaling and other improvements. | | Amd.2 to 2nd Edition | 2023-05-01 | 2023-09-05 | MDS22996_WG03_N00993 | DAM [editor link] | Renderable Text Items and other improvements. Integrated in the 3rd edition | | Amd.1 to 2nd Edition | 2023-06-05 | 2023-06-05 | MDS22608_WG03_N00866 | CDAM [editor link] | Support for progressive rendering signaling and other improvements. Never published as FDAM but integrated in 2nd edition. | | 2nd Edition (Revised Text) | | 2022-11-08 | MDS22076_WG03_N00749 | Published 2022-09
[editor link] | | | Amd.1 | | Apr-20 | 19308 | Published
[editor link] | Support for predictive image coding, bursts, bracketing and other improvements | | COR1 | | Oct-19 | 18861 | Published
[editor link] | | | Tentative 2nd Edition | | Jan-19 | 18310 | | Never published but integrated in the 2nd edition | | Amd.2 | | Apr-17 | 16913 | | Support for AVC, JPEG and layered coding of images. Never published but integrated in the 2nd edition | | Amd.1 | | | | | Support for JPEG XR. Never published but integrated in the 2nd edition | | 1st Edition | | Jan-17 | 16657 | Published in 2017-12
[editor link] | | | COR1 | | Feb-16 | 15975 | | Never published but integrated into 1st edition | | Tentative 1st Edition | | Jun-15 | 15523 | | Never published but integrated into 1st edition |