A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital...

14496-12:2004 (MPEG-4 Part 12: ISO base media file format), which is directly based upon the QuickTime File Format, which was published in 2001. MPEG-4 Part...

The BMP file format or bitmap, is a raster graphics image file format used to store bitmap digital images, independently of the display device (such as...

ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed...

The Android Package with the file extension apk is the file format used by the Android operating system, and a number of other Android-based operating...

list of file formats used by computers, organized by type. Filename extension is usually noted in parentheses if they differ from the file format's name...

An image file format is a file format for a digital image. There are many formats that can be used, such as JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Most formats up until...

STL is a file format native to the stereolithography CAD software created by 3D Systems. Chuck Hull, the inventor of stereolithography and 3D Systems’...

container format (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single file, usually...

An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called...

QuickTime File Format (QTFF) is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework. The format specifies a multimedia container file that contains...

Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images...

RAR is a proprietary archive file format that supports data compression, error correction and file spanning. It was developed in 1993 by Russian software...

format, or HAR, is a JSON-formatted archive file format for logging of a web browser's interaction with a site. The common extension for these files is...

A video file format is a type of file format for storing digital video data on a computer system. Video is almost always stored using lossy compression...

A JAR ("Java archive") file is a package file format typically used to aggregate many Java class files and associated metadata and resources (text, images...

The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color...

name text file refers to a file format that allows only plain text content with very little formatting (e.g., no bold or italic types). Such files can be...

LRC (short for lyrics) is a computer file format that synchronizes song lyrics with an audio file, such as MP3, Vorbis, or MIDI. It allows for compatible...

Lottie is a file format for vector graphics animation, and is named after Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger, a German pioneer of silhouette animation. Lottie...

This is similar to the function performed by the QuickTime File Format, AVI, or Ogg formats. One of the objectives of ASF was to support playback from...

The JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF) is an image file format standard published as ITU-T Recommendation T.871 and ISO/IEC 10918-5. It defines supplementary...

Kindle File Format is a proprietary e-book file format created by Amazon.com that can be downloaded and read on devices like smartphones, tablets, computers...

PLY is a computer file format known as the Polygon File Format or the Stanford Triangle Format. It was principally designed to store three-dimensional...

The BED (Browser Extensible Data) format is a text file format used to store genomic regions as coordinates and associated annotations. The data are presented...

A document file format is a text or binary file format for storing documents on a storage media, especially for use by computers. There currently exist...

A proprietary file format is a file format of a company, organization, or individual that contains data that is ordered and stored according to a particular...

export citations in this format. Citation management applications can export and import citations in this format. The RIS file format—two letters, two spaces...

An open file format is a file format for storing digital data, defined by an openly published specification usually maintained by a standards organization...

sector-by-sector binary copy of the source medium, the actual format of the file contents will depend on the file system of the disk from which the image was created...