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** [[ASCII]], [[Unicode]] (.txt) |
** [[ASCII]], [[Unicode]] (.txt) |
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** [[Amigaguide]] |
** [[Amigaguide]] |
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** [[HTML]] (.html, .htm) |
** [[HTML]] (.html, .htm) and [[XHTML]] (.xhtml) |
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** [[Radix-64]] |
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** [[RTF]] |
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** [[Troff]] |
** [[Troff]] |
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** [[Microsoft Word|Word]] (.doc) |
** [[Microsoft Word|Word]] (.doc) |
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** OpenOffice (employs [[XML]]) (http://xml.openoffice.org/) |
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** [[XML]] |
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* Spreadsheets |
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** XSL |
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* Databases |
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** DBF |
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** MDB |
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* [[Raster graphics|Raster]] image (see also [[graphics file formats]]) |
* [[Raster graphics|Raster]] image (see also [[graphics file formats]]) |
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** [[CMX]] |
** [[CMX]] |
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** [[DXF]] |
** [[DXF]] |
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** [[SVG]] |
** [[SVG]] (employs [[XML]]) |
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**[[Scene description language|Scene description languages]] (3D vector image formats) |
**[[Scene description language|Scene description languages]] (3D vector image formats) |
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*** [[MOVIE.BYU]] |
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** [[PostScript]] (.ps, .ps.gz) |
** [[PostScript]] (.ps, .ps.gz) |
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* configurations, metadata |
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* Hypertext description |
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** [[HTML]] and [[XHTML]] |
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** [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] |
** [[Cascading Style Sheets|CSS]] |
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* Data exchange |
* Data exchange |
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** [[SDXF]] (Structured Data Exchange Format) |
** [[SDXF]] (Structured Data Exchange Format) |
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Revision as of 08:37, 1 June 2004
This is a list of file formats often seen on computers. Filename extensions are usually noted in parenthesis if they differ from the format name or abbreviation.
- Audio file formats
- Lossless
- Uncompressed
- Compressed
- FLAC (free as in freedom lossless codec of the Ogg project)
- Apple Lossless Encoding (M4A)
- Lossy
- Music formats
- MID (standard MIDI file; most often just notes and controls but occasionally also sample dumps)
- NSF (bytecode program to play NES music)
- MOD (Soundtracker and Protracker sample and melody modules)
- S3M (ScreamTracker 3 module, with a few more effects and a dedicated volume column)
- XM (FastTracker module, adding instrument envelopes)
- IT (Impulse Tracker module, adding compressed samples, note-release actions, and more effects including a resonant filter)
- MT2 (MadTracker 2 module. It could be resumed as being XM and IT combined with more features like track effects and automation.)
- MNG (BGM for the Creatures game series, starting from Creatures 2; a free editor and player is available)
- Lossless
- Document file formats - These are ways of storing mainly text
- Spreadsheets
- XSL
- Databases
- DBF
- MDB
- Raster image (see also graphics file formats)
- BMP
- GIF (often avoided because of patent problems)
- MSP (file format used by old versions of Microsoft paint, replaced with bmp in Windows 3.0)
- IFF-ILBM (.ilbm .lbm .iff)
- JNG (single-frame MNG with JPEG data and possibly an alpha channel)
- JPEG JFIF (.jpg or .jpeg) (lossy, recommended for display of photographic images)
- PCX
- PNG (lossless, recommended for display and edition of graphic images)
- PPM
- PSD
- TGA
- TIFF (.tif or .tiff) (usually lossless, many variant exist including lossy one)
- Vector image formats (see also graphics file formats)
- Object code file formats
- a.out (Unix and GCC only, not technically a file format)
- ELF
- MZ EXE (.exe; used in DOS)
- PE (.exe; used in Microsoft Windows and some other systems)
- COM files, used in DOS
- Mach-O (Mach based systems, notably native format of Mac OS X)
- PEF (Recent Mac OS versions, up to Mac OS 9. Compatible with Mac OS X, but not natively)
- Page description languages
- DVI
- PCL
- PostScript (.ps, .ps.gz)
- configurations, metadata
- Data exchange
- SDXF (Structured Data Exchange Format)
- Tabulated data
- tab
- Comma-separated values (CSV)
- dif (accessible by many spreadsheet applications)
- Video file formats
- AAF (mostly intended to hold edit decisions and rendering information, but can also contain compressed media essence)
- Animated GIF (simple animation; often avoided because of patent problems)
- ASF (ASF is a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used; MPEG-4 is common. Video in ASF-containers is also called Windows Media Video (WMV))
- AVI (AVI is a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used; MPEG-1 and a variant of MPEG-4 are common)
- Macromedia Flash (.swf) (complex vector-based animation with sound and interactivity)
- Matroska (*.mkv) (Matroska is a container format, which enables any video format such as MPEG-4 or XviD to be used along with other content such as subtitles and detailed meta information)
- MNG (mainly simple animation containing PNG and JPEG objects, often somewhat more complex than animated GIF)
- MPEG
- MXF
- Tarkin (Ogg project, all Tarkin files are Ogg files)
- Theora (Ogg project, all Theora files are Ogg files)
- OGM (OGM is a container format created so that Ogg Vorbis could be used for the audio of a video as this could not be done with AVI)
- QuickTime (QuickTime is a container format, which enables any form of compression to be used; Sorenson codec is the most common)
- RealMedia
- GIS file formats
- DEM (USGS) (US Geo Survey terrestrial elevation data)
- Disk images (a file system used as a random-access archive file inside another file system)
- Native data (registered objective parametrs .dat .cop .par)