AOmedia next (AV2) codec

[rwill]

Well, I am just happy that they stopped also making a completely new container formats with every major MPEG codec release.

We had Program Streams with Mpeg-1, Transport Streams with Mpeg-2 and that extended Quicktime Container with Mpeg-4.

Since then, nothing new, and thats totally fine I guess.

[Z2697]

Given long enough time average Joe's will know MP4 is not codec.

[Ritsuka]

Even if we had a different file extension for every container + video combination, what about audio and subtitles? It's not possible to do a separate extension for each video/audio/subtitles/whatever combination.

[excellentswordfight]

Originally Posted by kurkosdr

Before HEVC came along, pretty much everyone was following the above de facto rules, and mp4 files were universally playable on any "HD" player as a result. This is why mp4 files with HEVC not playing in "HD" players are difficult to explain to Average Joes and Janes, mp4 had evolved into a de facto standard for H.264 video before that and they expect the filetype to be universally playable.

Joes and Janes dont touch videofiles anymore, they use streaming and are on phones and tablets. People dont burn videofiles to dvds, or transfer them to usb drives to put in playbackdevices anymore to view some home video or whatever. Heck, people barely view their media in file managers at all, its in their icloud, in their instagram/snapchat library etc. They have moved on, its no point in starting doing this now, for their sake.

Originally Posted by Z2697

Given long enough time average Joe's will know MP4 is not codec.

They dont need to know it anymore, and at least in my experience power users have actually started to understand this. There has never been more resources about this stuff, when getting in to video production youtube and the internet are full or resources were this is explained good enough.