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==Limits==

The limits of the MCF format were based on human perception and expectations of progress in bitrates of video. Thus MCF suffers from none of the shortcomings of the avi format, and is practically unlimited. The [[time code]] precision of the format is limited to 1 ms. The addressing in the file is limited to 64 bits, which is extremely large. Frame size is limited by 32-bit frame size number, limiting frame size at 432 [[gibibyte|GiBgigapixel]]s. Time codes are stored as 40-bit integers, which caps maximum movie length at approximately ''35 years''. The number of distinct streams in one file is 2¹⁶, or 65536. A movie can be split into a maximum of 255 segments.

==See also==