- Extension
- .3gpp
- .aac
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Audio
- Developer
- Third Generation Partnership Project
- Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute, Dolby Labs, Sony and Nokia
- Description
- It is an audio and video file format specially created to send multimedia files over the internet and to save mobile phone videos. 3GPP was developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project.
- Compressed audio file similar to an .MP3 file, but offers several performance improvements; examples include a higher coding efficiency for both stationary and transient signals, a simpler filterbank, and better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz; maintains quality nearly indistinguishable from the original audio source.
- MIME Type
- video/3gpp
- audio/x-aac
