Media
DV or MiniDV Tape
Video signal
720/60p, 720/30p, 720/50p, 720/25p, 720/24p, 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 1080/25p, 1080/30p, 1080/24p
Video sampling frequency for luminance
74.25 MHz (720p), 55.6875 MHz (1080i)
Video Chroma subsampling
4:2:0
Video sample quantization
8 bits (both luma and chrominance)
Video Compression
MPEG2 Video (profile & level: MP@H-14)
Video compressed bitstream rate
Approximately 25 Mbit/s for 1080i / 19.7 Mbit/s for 720p
Audio sampling frequency
48 kHz
Audio quantization
16 bits
Audio compression
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II
Audio compressed bitstream rate
384 kbit/s (192 kbit/s per channel)
Audio mode
Stereo (2 channels); optional 4-channel MPEG-2 Audio Layer II at 96 kbit/s per channel mode
MPEG Stream type
Transport Stream Packetized Elementary Stream
Stream interface
IEEE 1394a Apple FireWire 400 or Sony i.LINK (MPEG-2 TS)
File extension
Usually saved as .m2t