Talk:MP4 file format: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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::As the reference supports the information about the status, it is clear that the two cannot be treated separately, otherwise the text would become incoherent. The important point, however, is that the format is open and that the Library of Congress was and still is a much more reliable reference than some discussions on GitHub. Your reverts reintroduced an error and two less reliable references. A direct link to the standard is a welcome addition, but was not necessary to correct the previous information. --[[User:Ftrebien|Fernando Trebien]] ([[User talk:Ftrebien|talk]]) 04:06, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

:::https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:MP4_file_format#MP4_and_ISOBMFF_are_not_open_formats --[[User:Svnpenn|Svnpenn]] ([[User talk:Svnpenn|talk]]) 19:35, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

:they are not. note the LOC link now correctly reflects "it is not considered an open format":

:https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd000155.shtml

:and hasn't been since its removal from the ISO publicly available standards:

:https://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ [[User:Svnpenn|Svnpenn]] ([[User talk:Svnpenn|talk]]) 21:14, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

Like MP4, there's also the notable [[C (programming language)|C programming language]] ([https://www.iso.org/standard/74528.html ISO/IEC 9899]), which is not a format but is [https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/ generally considered an open standard], even though a fee is required to access the final text of the standard (the final draft is available online for free, but it differs from the final published text in some details).