Draft:MP5

Review waiting, please be patient.

This may take 4 weeks or more, since drafts are reviewed in no specific order. There are 1,659 pending submissions waiting for review.

If the submission is accepted, then this page will be moved into the article space.
If the submission is declined, then the reason will be posted here.
In the meantime, you can continue to improve this submission by editing normally.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Reviewer tools

Instructions · What links here · MP5 (talk: + · bio) · (log) · Copyvios report · reFill · Citation Bot · (Search: Google, Wikipedia) · Submitted 6 days ago by Shrek445 (talk: D · +) · Last edited 3 days ago by Kuru

Warning: The page MP5 redirects to Heckler & Koch MP5. Please ensure it is not a copy or that this page is located at the correct title.

Submission declined on 8 October 2025 by Fade258 (talk).

This submission appears to read more like an advertisement than an entry in an encyclopedia. Encyclopedia articles need to be written from a neutral point of view, and should refer to a range of independent, reliable, published sources, not just to materials produced by the creator of the subject being discussed. This is important so that the article can meet Wikipedia's verifiability policy and the notability of the subject can be established. If you still feel that this subject is worthy of inclusion in Wikipedia, please rewrite your submission to comply with these policies.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you have not resolved the issues listed above, your draft will be declined again and potentially deleted.
If you need extra help, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors.
Please do not remove reviewer comments or this notice until the submission is accepted.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

Declined by Fade258 3 months ago. Last edited by Kuru 3 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

This draft has been resubmitted and is currently awaiting re-review.

Comment: In accordance with the Wikimedia Foundation's Terms of Use, I disclose that I have been paid by my employer for my contributions to this article. Shrek445 (talk) 13:46, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

⸻

MP5 (Digital Media Concept)

For the submachine gun, see Heckler & Koch MP5.

MP5 is a term used in digital media to describe various technologies that extend the capabilities of the MP4 standard, particularly regarding interactivity and personalization.^{[citation needed]} Unlike its predecessors (MP3 and MP4), MP5 is not a formal ISO standard; instead, the label is applied to disparate implementations ranging from consumer electronics marketing to proprietary software-as-a-service platforms.^{[citation needed]}

Usage in Consumer Electronics

In the mid-2000s and 2010s, the "MP5" label appeared on portable media players, primarily manufactured in China. In this context, the term did not denote a specific codec or container. According to technical documentation sites like FileInfo,^[1] these files often utilized standard H.264 encoding within an MP4 container, with the "MP5" branding used to signal the device's ability to play a wider variety of file types without conversion.

Interactive "Video-as-Code" Implementations

In the 2020s, the term was been re-adopted by technology firms to describe "video-as-code" architectures.^{[citation needed]} This implementation differs from traditional video streaming by delivering a lightweight JSON or JavaScript template to the client-side rather than a pre-rendered video file.^{[citation needed]}

Dynamic Rendering: The visual content is rendered in real-time on the viewer's device (browser or app), allowing for data-driven changes to the video at the moment of playback.^{[citation needed]}
Commercial Use: The technology company Blings utilizes "MP5" as a proprietary name for its personalization engine.^{[citation needed]} This system allows for the integration of CRM data directly into video layers, enabling mass-scale personalized video without the server-side overhead of traditional rendering.^{[citation needed]}

⸻

Comparison of Technical Approaches

Feature	Traditional Video (MP4)	Interactive Video (MP5 Concept)
Rendering	Server-side (Pre-rendered)	Client-side (Real-time)
Payload	Large binary files	Lightweight code/templates
Logic	Static	Programmable / Branching
Standardization	ISO/IEC 14496-14	Proprietary / Non-standardized

References

^ ".MP5 File Extension - How to open .mp5 files". FileInfo.com. Retrieved 2026-01-22.

[1] ".MP5 File Extension - How to open .mp5 files". FileInfo.com. Retrieved 2026-01-22.

[1]

Usage in Consumer Electronics

Interactive "Video-as-Code" Implementations

Comparison of Technical Approaches

See also

References