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Extensible Binary Meta Language

Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML) is a generalized file format for any kind of data, aiming to be a binary equivalent to XML. It provides a basic framework for storing data in XML-like tags. It was originally designed as the framework language for the Matroska audio/video container format.

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Extensible Binary Meta Language
Magic number1a 45 df a3
Extended toMatroska
StandardRFC 8794

Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML) is a generalized file format for any kind of data, aiming to be a binary equivalent to XML. It provides a basic framework for storing data in XML-like tags. It was originally designed as the framework language for the Matroska audio/video container format.123

EBML is not extensible in the same way that XML is, as the XML schema (e.g., DTD) must be known in advance.

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References

  1. Ralf Biebeler (2007). Video-Codecs. Fachverlag Schiele & Schoen, 2007. ISBN 978-3794907731.
  2. Paolo Nesi; Kia Ng; Jaime Delgado (2008). Axmedis 2008. Firenze University Press, 2008. pp. 51–56. ISBN 978-8884538109.
  3. Ajith Abraham; Jaime Lloret Mauri; John Buford; Junichi Suzuki; Sabu M. Thampi (6 July 2011). Advances in Computing and Communications, Part IV. Springer, 2011. ISBN 978-3642227257.
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