Format
Nullsoft Streaming Video
Summary
- Name
- Nullsoft Streaming Video
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1176
- Format type
- Video
- Description
- The Nullsoft Streaming Video (NSV) format is a multimedia container format designed to enable streaming of video and audio.
- File extensions
-
nsv - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
Nullsoft Video with optional header
- Description
- BOF: 'NSVf'{24-16384}'NSVs' (must have minimum 24 byte header but can include variable amount of metadata, Table of Contents)
- Provenance
- http://multimedia.cx/mirror/NSVFormat.rtf; 04/2024 (v.117)- Signature updated to extend byte range between two strings. Submitted by Preservica.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
4E535666{24-16384}4E535673- Endianness
- None
Nullsoft Video without optional header
- Description
- BOF: 'NSVs'
- Provenance
- http://multimedia.cx/mirror/NSVFormat.rtf
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
4E535673- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V118
- Release date
- 30 April 2024
-
Updated
Nullsoft Streaming Video: Signature named 'Nullsoft Video with optional header' updated to extend byte range between two strings. Submitted by Preservica.
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V94
- Release date
- 17 September 2018
-
Added format
Nullsoft Streaming Video: Full entry added.
-
Added signature
Nullsoft Streaming Video: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.