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CharlesW on Feb 7, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Backs AV1: What Does This Mean for the Futur...

> .mov was just a crippled .mp4

That's backwards — Apple contributed the Movie file format as the basis of the MPEG-4 file format.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14#History_of_MP4

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