Extensible Binary Meta Language

Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML) is a generalized file format for any kind of data, aiming to be a binary equivalent to XML. It provides a basic framework for storing data in XML-like tags. It was originally designed as the framework language for the Matroska audio/video container format.

EBML is not extensible in the same way that XML is, as the XML schema (e.g., DTD) must be known in advance.

• Binary XML
• WBXML
• Matroska
• WebM
• XML
• IFF, an older structured binary format widely adopted for multimedia

• The EBML website
• The EBML specifications
• RFC 8794