Extensible Binary Meta Language Explained

Extensible Binary Meta Language
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Extended To:	Matroska

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.^{[1] [2] [3]}

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

See also

• Binary XML
• WBXML
• Matroska
• WebM
• XML
• IFF, an older structured binary format widely adopted for multimedia

External links

• The EBML website
• The EBML specifications
• RFC 8794

Notes and References

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