MP4 Files
a format for animations
These are some examples of MP4 files.
MP4 File Characteristics:
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BINARY
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Color
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2D
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Lossy compression
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multiple images that form an animation
Reference:
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The MPEG Working Group.
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Didier Le Gall,
MPEG: A Video Compression Standard for Multimedia Applications,
Communications of the ACM,
Volume 34, Number 4, April 1991.
Programs to view an MP4 file:
Programs to convert a file to MP4 format:
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QuickTime or
QuickTime Player can save a QuickTime MOV file as an MP4 file.
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QuickTime Pro
can convert a sequence of
PNG files to a QuickTime movie, and export that movie as
an MP4 file.
Sample MP4 files:
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the CAVITY_FLOW movie, a fluid flow animation;
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the CLAW_PIX Example 01 movie,
animation of 1D advection flow, computed by
CLAWPACK
converted into PNG files by
CLAW_PIX;
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the CLAW_PIX Example 02 movie,
animation of 1D acoustics equation flow, computed by
CLAWPACK
converted into PNG files by
CLAW_PIX;
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the CVT_CUTOFF movie, created from runs of
CVT_REFINE.
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the CVT_10PLUS10 movie, created from runs of
CVT_REFINE.
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the CVT_SIZE movie, created from runs of
CVT_SIZE.
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the INOUT_FLOW movie, a fluid flow animation;
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the INOUT_FLOW movie, case 2, a fluid flow animation;
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the TCELL_FLOW movie, a fluid flow animation;
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Last revised on 13 April 2006.