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What byte-level structure do Apple's vexu, prji, pack and lnsc boxes define, and which fields are reserved or undefined?

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Apple's preliminary ISOBMFF additions (v1.9.8 beta) signal immersive and stereo video with a vexu box containing required-box, eye, packing, projection and lens-collection boxes: projection is one 32-bit FourCC (rect, equi, hequ, prim; fish reserved), and frame-packed stereo uses a 32-bit packing FourCC for side-by-side or over-under; the document says it is preliminary and subject to change. Curator qualifications: Specification read 2026-10-22; no files muxed or parsed. Field-level details of lens boxes from producer reading. Limitations: Specification read 2026-10-22; no files muxed or parsed. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-pantos-hls-rfc8216bis-22.txt",
      "note": "Apple Stereo-Video-ISOBMFF-Extensions.pdf (Version 1.9.8 Beta, June 9, 2025), sections 1, 3.2-3.4.3 and box hierarchy"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://developer.apple.com/av-foundation/Stereo-Video-ISOBMFF-Extensions.pdf",
      "note": "Apple Stereo-Video-ISOBMFF-Extensions.pdf (Version 1.9.8 Beta, June 9, 2025), sections 1, 3.2-3.4.3 and box hierarchy"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Apple's preliminary ISOBMFF additions (v1.9.8 beta) signal immersive and stereo video with a vexu box containing required-box, eye, packing, projection and lens-collection boxes: projection is one 32-bit FourCC (rect, equi, hequ, prim; fish reserved), and frame-packed stereo uses a 32-bit packing FourCC for side-by-side or over-under; the document says it is preliminary and subject to change. · locator: Apple Stereo-Video-ISOBMFF-Extensions.pdf (Version 1.9.8 Beta, June 9, 2025), sections 1, 3.2-3.4.3 and box hierarchy source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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