File format concepts for video files are described. It is proposed to that descriptive data of a file indicates whether a parameter set for a track of a file is forwarded when jointly decoding a sub-
stream of the track and a further track, and / or that a file includes, for a sub-
stream of a video
stream signaled in the file, an alternative parameter set to a parameter set for fully decoding the track, the alternative parameter set being for decoding the sub-stream, so as to allow for switching between multiple tracks of a file, and / or that step-wise stream access pictures of a track of a file are marked as stream access point pictures for accessing the track, and / or that a temporal length within which a decoder refresh in case of a joint decoding of sub-streams distributed over multiple tracks is indicated in a file, and / or that a file provides information from which it is derivable whether a
pixel aspect ratio varies.