3GP and 3G2 are container formats similar to MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4), which is also based on MPEG-4 Part 12. The 3GP and 3G2 file formats are both structurally based on the ISO base media file format defined in ISO/ IEC 14496-12 – MPEG-4 Part 12, but older versions of the 3GP file format did not use some of its features.
Based on the 3GPP2 technical specification published on.
Relations between ISO Base Media File Format, MP4 File Format, 3GPP file format and 3GPP2 file format.