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What is the format of NFB digital films?

  • Created December 10, 2014
  • Author Laura Heino
  • Category Digital Downloads

We have encoded our downloadable films in MP4 format with H.264 encoding and AAC sound. Films with subtitles are encoded in TTX format.

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