The name
MP4 player is a marketing term for inexpensive
portable media players, usually from little known or generic device manufacturers. The name itself is a
misnomer, since most MP4 players through 2007 were incompatible with the
MPEG-4 Part 14 or the
.mp4 container format. Instead, the term refers to their ability to play more file types than just MP3. In this sense, in some markets like Brazil, any new function added to a given media player is followed by an increase in the number, for example an MP5 or MP12 Player, despite there being no corresponding MPEG-5 standard (, the current standard, still being developed, is
MPEG-4).