List of file formats

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This is a list of file formats organized by type, seen on computers. Filename extensions are usually noted in parenthesis if they differ from the format name or abbreviation.

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Archive and compressed

Main article: List of archive formats
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Computer-aided design

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Electronic design automation

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Database

  • DBF - DBase, DBase III/IV/V, Microsoft FoxPro
  • MDB - Microsoft Database (Access)
  • NSF - Lotus Notes database
  • NTF - Lotus Notes database design template
  • SQL - bundled SQL queries
  • WDB - Microsoft Works Database
  • FP? - Filemaker
  • DB - Paradox
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Document

These files store formatted text.

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Font file

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Geographic information system

  • APR (ESRI ArcView 3.3 and earlier project file)
  • DEM (USGS) (US Geo Survey terrestrial elevation data)
  • E00 (ARC/INFO interchange file format)
  • GeoTIFF (Geographically located raster data)
  • GPX (XML-based interchange format)
  • MXD (ESRI ArcGIS project file, 8.0 and higher)
  • SHP (ESRI shape file)
  • World TIFF (Geographically located raster data: text file giving corner coordinate, raster cells per unit, and rotation)
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Graphics

Main article: graphics file formats.
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Raster graphics

These files store images as a group of pixels.

  • ART - America Online proprietary format
  • BMP Microsoft Windows Bitmap Formatted Image
  • BLP - Blizzard Entertainment proprietary texture format
  • CPT - Corel PHOTO-PAINT image
  • CUT - Dr. Halo image file
  • DjVu - DjVu for scanned documents
  • Exif - Exchangeable image file format (Exif) is a specification for the image file format used by digital cameras
  • GIF - CompuServe's Graphics Interchange Format
  • ICNS - file format use for icons in Mac OS X. Contains bitmap images at multiple resolutions and bitdepths with alpha channel.
  • ICO - a file format used for icons in Microsoft Windows. Contains small bitmap images at multiple resolutions and sizes.
  • IFF (.iff, .ilbm, .lbm) - ILBM
  • JNG - a single-frame MNG using JPEG compression and possibly an alpha channel.
  • JPEG, JFIF (.jpg or .jpeg) - a lossy image format widely used to display photographic images.
  • JP2 - JPEG2000
  • LBM - Deluxe Paint image file
  • MAX - ScanSoft PaperPort document
  • MIFF - ImageMagick's native file format
  • MNG - Multiple Network Graphics, the animated version of PNG
  • MSP - a file format used by old versions of Microsoft Paint. Replaced with BMP in Microsoft Windows 3.0
  • NITF - A US Government standard commonly used in Intelligence systems
  • PBM - Portable BitMap
  • PC1 - Low resolution, compressed Degas picture file
  • PC2 - Medium resolution, compressed Degas picture file
  • PC3 - High resolution, compressed Degas picture file
  • PCX - a lossless format used by ZSoft's PC Paint, popular at one time on DOS systems.
  • PGM - Portable Graymap
  • PI1 - Low resolution, uncompressed Degas picture file
  • PI2 - Medium resolution, uncompressed Degas picture file
  • PI3 - High resolution, uncompressed Degas picture file
  • PICT - Apple Macintosh PICT image
  • PNG - Portable Network Graphic (lossless, recommended for display and edition of graphic images)
  • PPM - Portable Pixmap
  • PSD - Adobe Photoshop Drawing
  • PSP - Jasc Paint Shop Pro image
  • QFX - QuickLink Fax image
  • RLE - a run-length encoded image.
  • SGI, RGB, INT, BW - Silicon Graphics Image
  • TGA - Truevision TGA image file
  • TIFF (.tif or .tiff) Tagged Image File Format (usually lossless, but many variants exist, including lossy ones.)
  • XBM - X Window System Bitmap
  • XPM - X Window System Pixmap
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Vector graphics

Vector graphics use geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons to represent images.

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3D graphics

3D graphics are 3D models that allow you to build models in real-time or non real-time 3D rendering.

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Object code, executable files, shared and dynamically-linked libraries

Object Extensions

  • VBX - Visual Basic Extensions
  • OCX - Object Control Extensions
  • .tlb - Windows Type Library
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Page description language

  • Configurations, Metadata
    • CSS
    • XSLT (.xslt) - XML Style Sheet
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Presentation

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Scientific data formats (data exchange)

Chemistry Specific

  • Alchemy Format (.alc)
  • Chemdraw (.chm)
  • Chemdraw 3D (.c3d)
  • Chemical Markup Language (.cml)
  • SMILES format (.smi)
  • MDL Mol file (.mol)
  • Protein Databank (.pdb)
  • Coordinate animation format (.xyz)

Many more examples can be found here [5]

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Script

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Signal data formats (non-audio)

  • ACQ - AcqKnowledge File Format for Windows/PC from Biopac
  • BKR - The EEG data format developed at the University of Technology Graz
  • BDF - BioSemo data format - similar to EDF but 24bit
  • CFWB - Chart Data File Format from ADInstruments
  • EDF - European data format
  • FEF - File Exchange Format for Vital signs
  • GDF - General data formats for biomedical signals
  • MFER - Medical waveform Format Encoding Rules
  • SCP-ECG - Standard Communication Protocol for Computer assisted electrocardiography
  • SIGIF- SIGnal Interchange Format
  • and many others [6]
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Sound and music

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Lossless audio

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Lossy audio

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Other 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)
  • PTB (Power Tab Editor tab)
  • S3M (ScreamTracker 3 module, with a few more effects and a dedicated volume column)
  • XM (Fast Tracker 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)
  • PSF PlayStation sound format.
  • SPC Super Nintendo Entertainment System sound file format.
  • STF StudioFactory project file. It contains all necessary patches, samples, tracks and settings to play the file.
  • SYN SynFactory project file. It contains all necessary patches, samples, tracks and settings to play the file.
  • NIFF
  • MusicXML
  • YM (Atari ST/Amstrad CPC YM2149 sound chip format)
  • CUST (DeliPlayer custom sound file format)
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Playlist formats

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Source code for computer programs

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Spreadsheet

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Tabulated data

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Video

Main article: video file formats.
  • AAF (mostly intended to hold edit decisions and rendering information, but can also contain compressed media essence)
  • 3GP, the most common video format for cell phones
  • Animated GIF (simple animation; until recently 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)
  • DSH
  • M1V MPEG-1 Video file
  • M2V MPEG-2 Video file
  • Macromedia Flash (.swf for viewing, .fla for producing) (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)
  • MediaForge (*.wrap)
  • MNG (mainly simple animation containing PNG and JPEG objects, often somewhat more complex than animated GIF)
  • MOV (QuickTime, a container format, which enables any form of compression to be used; Sorenson codec is the most common)
  • MPEG (.mpeg, .mpg, .mpe)
  • MXF Material Exchange Format is a standardized wrapper format for audio/visual material developed by SMPTE
  • NSV Nullsoft Streaming Video is a media container designed for streaming video content over the internet.
  • 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)
  • Tarkin (Ogg project, all Tarkin files are Ogg files)
  • Theora (Ogg project, all Theora files are Ogg files)
  • RealMedia
  • Switch virtual interface (SVI) Samsung video format for portable players
  • XviD
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Video game data

List of common file formats of data for video games on systems that support filesystems, most commonly PC games.

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Video game ROMs

List of the most common filename extensions used when the ROM image is copied from the original ROM device to an external memory such as hard disk for back up purposes or for making the game playable with an emulator. If the platform specific extension is not used then usually filename extensions ".rom" or ".bin" are used to clarify that the file contains a copy of a content of a ROM. When the data is in the original ROM such as game cartridge it is not a single file and does not have a file entension and is de facto an image of a filesystem.

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Virtual Machines

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Microsoft Virtual PC/Virtual Server

See [7]

  • Virtual Floppy Disk (.vfd)
  • Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd)
  • Virtual Undo Disk (.vud)
  • Virtual Machine Configuration (.vmc)
  • Virtual Machine Saved State (.vsv)
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EMC VMware ESX/GSX/Workstation/Player

See [8]

  • Virtual Machine Logfile (.log)
  • Virtual Machine Disk (.vmdk, .dsk)
  • Virtual Machine BIOS (.nvram)
  • Virtual Machine paging file (.vmem)
  • Virtual Machine snapshot metadata (.vmsd)
  • Virtual Machine snapshot (.vmsn)
  • Virtual Machine suspended state (.vmss, .std)
  • Virtual Machine team data (.vmtm)
  • Virtual Machine configuration (.vmx, .cfg)
  • Virtual Machine team configuration (.vmxf)
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Webpage

  • Static
    • HTML (.html, .htm) - HyperText Markup Language
    • XHTML (.xhtml, .xht) - eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
    • XML (.xml)
    • MHTML (.mht, .mhtml) - Archived HTML, store all data on one web page (text, images, etc) in one big file
  • Dynamically generated
    • ASP (.asp) - Microsoft Active Server Page
    • ASPX (.aspx) - Microsoft Active Server Page. NET
    • ADP - AOLserver Dynamic Page
    • BML (.bml) - Better Markup Language (templating)
    • CFM (.cfm) - ColdFusion
    • CGI (.cgi)
    • JSP (.jsp) JavaServer Pages
    • Perl (.pl)
    • PHP (.php, .php?, .phtml) - ? is version number
    • SSI (.shtml) - HTML with Server Side Includes
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Other

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See also

List of file extensions by alphabet

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External links

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