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MP4 — Solid Red Field

Short solid red field SAMPLE for colour and flash QC detectors.

Specifications

Fps
24
Codec
H.264
Container
MP4
Wave
G
Resolution
480x270
Pattern
red
Duration
1.50s

What is a .mp4 file?

MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) is a widely supported multimedia container based on ISOBMFF that holds video, audio, subtitles, and metadata, most commonly H.264 or H.265 video with AAC audio. It supports streaming, chapters, and multiple tracks. It is the dominant format for distributing and playing digital video.

How to use this file

Use an example MP4 to test container demuxing, track and codec detection, seeking and streaming, and transcoding or thumbnail-extraction pipelines.

How to use this file for testing

“MP4 — Solid Red Field” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.

Documented properties for this file: 1.50s · 24 fps. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Media fixtures are short and synthetic by design. Prefer waveform or transcript ground truth in the same group when measuring ASR, trim, upscale, or sync tools; do not assume broadcast-quality masters.

Code examples

<video controls preload="metadata" width="640" src="solid-red.mp4"></video>

Generated by generation/video_wave_g.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.