EBML

File Format
Name	EBML
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Metaformats EBML
LoCFDD	fdd000516
Wikidata ID	Q1273936

EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language) is a binary metaformat, similar in scope to BMFF or RIFF. It was designed as part of the Matroska multimedia container format.

Related formats

• Matroska
• WebM
• EBML Schema

Identification

An EBML file begins with bytes 0x1a 0x45 0xdf 0xa3, representing the encoded ID number of the "EBML" element.

Specifications

• RFC 8794
• Matroska Specifications
• EBML spec
• Proposed Internet draft, 2016-07-06
• Proposed Internet draft, 2018-08-28
• Proposed Internet draft, 2019-10-22

Links

• EBML Github
• libEBML