Format
IMF Package Composition Playlist
Summary
- Name
- IMF Package Composition Playlist
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1999
- Format type
- Text (Mark-up)
- Description
- The Interoperable Master Format (IMF) is a file-based media format, and an IMF Package is a collection of media files with accompanying XML data describing the IMF Package structure. The Composition Playlist (CPL) in an XML file that describes how media components are assembled on a timeline for specific content representations. A CPL file should be found alongside other IMP component files.
- Note
- http://www.smpte-ra.org
- File extensions
-
xml - Submitted by
- Preservica / Preservica
- Developed by
- SMPTE / Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
- Supported by
- SMPTE / Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
IMF Package Composition Playlist
- Description
- XML declaration, followed by <CompositionPlaylist opening tag, shortly followed by a reference to http://www.smpte-ra.org, included here to avoid any incidental clashes with non-IMF formats using similar tags. Note that this signature doesn’t currently utilize any specific XML Namespace element for CPL, although this could be included if there is a requirement to distinguish between different schema compliance.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D(22|27)312E30(22|27){1-1024}3C436F6D706F736974696F6E506C61796C697374{5-1024}687474703A2F2F7777772E736D7074652D72612E6F7267- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V118
- Release date
- 30 April 2024
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Added format
IMF Package Composition Playlist: Full entry added. Submitted by Preservica.
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Added signature
IMF Package Composition Playlist: Signature researched and samples provided by Preservica.