MVI stands for ''Musical Video Interactive'', a
DVD
The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 1995 and first released on November 1, 1996, in Japan. The medium can store any ki ...
-based
container format
A container format (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single file, usually along with metadata for identifying and further detailing those streams. Nota ...
for packing audio, video and interactive visual content (for example, lyrics) onto one disk. The first commercial disc released with this technology was ''
Snakes & Arrows'' by
Rush on May 15, 2007.
The audio content is provided in multiple formats, including a high-definition version (a minimum of 24-bit at 48kHz sampling) and an
MP3
MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg. It was designed to greatly reduce the amount ...
version for copying to portable audio players. The video content is compatible with DVD video, and can also optionally include high-definition video.
No new MVI releases have been made since 2012.
References
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External links
*MVI FAQ (2008) - https://web.archive.org/web/20081004211030/http://www.mvimusic.com/faq
*MVI home (2012) - https://web.archive.org/web/20120214081228/http://www.mvimusic.com/://
Audio storage
Digital container formats
DVD