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SMPTE Colour Bars + 1 kHz Tone (MP4)

Standard SMPTE-style colour bars with a 1 kHz reference tone — the classic broadcast test pattern. A fixture for calibrating colour, testing decoders, and verifying audio alongside a known video signal.

Specifications

Resolution
480x270
Fps
30
Duration
5s
Pattern
SMPTE bars
Audio
1 kHz sine tone
Codec
H.264 + AAC

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.

Code examples

<video controls preload="metadata" width="640" src="smpte-bars.mp4"></video>

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