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List of file formats

Here are some important computer file formats:

  • Hypertext description
  • Data exchange
    • XML
    • SDXF (Structured Data Exchange Format)
  • Tabulated data
  • Archiving and compression formats[?]
  • Video file formats
    • Animated GIF[?] (simple animation; often avoided because of patent problems)
    • ASF (ASF is a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used, MPEG4 is common)
    • AVI (AVI is a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used, MPEG and a variation on MPEG4 are common)
    • Macromedia Flash (.swf) (complex vector-based animation with sound and interactivity)
    • Matroska (*.mkv) (Matroska is a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used, MPEG4 is common)
    • MNG (mainly simple animation containing PNG and JPEG objects, often somewhat more complex than animated GIF)
    • MPEG
    • Tarkin (Ogg project)
    • Theora (Ogg project)
    • OGM (OGM is a shell, which enables any form of compression to be used, MPEG4 is common))
    • QuickTime
    • RealMedia
  • Disk images (a file system used as a random-access archive file inside another file system; extensions include .img and .iso)
  • Native data (registered objective parametrs .dat .cop .par )

A good source of information on file formats is the Wotsit archive at http://www.wotsit.org



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