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

Contents

Archive and compressed

Main article: List of archive formats

Computer-aided design

Electronic design automation

Database

Document

These files store formatted text.

Font file

Geographic information system

Graphical information organizers

Graphics

Main article: graphics file formats.

Raster graphics

These files store images as a group of pixels.

Vector graphics

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

3D graphics

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

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

Object Extensions
*VBX - Visual Basic Extensions
*OCX - Object Control Extensions

Page description language

Presentation

Scientific data formats (data exchange)

Chemical/biological file formats

Script

Signal data formats (non-audio)

Sound and music

Lossless audio

Lossy audio

Other music formats

Playlist formats

Source code for computer programs

Spreadsheet

Tabulated data

Video

Main article: video file formats.
*MPEG-4, shortened "MP4", a popular video format most often used for Sony's PlayStation Portable and Apple's iPod.
  • 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
  • SVI Samsung video format for portable players
  • SMI SAMI Caption file. (HTML like subtitle for movie files)
  • XviD

    • Video game data

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

    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.

    *Game Boy Color (.gbc)
  • Game Boy Advance (.gba)
    • *Game Boy Advance Saved Data Files (.sav)
    *Visual Boy Advance Save States (.sgm)
  • Nintendo 64 (.n64, .v64)
    • *Project 64 Save States (.pj)
  • Nintendo Entertainment System (.nes)
    • *Famicom Disk System (.fds)
  • Sega Game Gear (.gg)
  • Sega Master System (.sms)
  • Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis (.smd or .bin)
  • Super NES (.smc, or .078) (.078 is for split ROMs, which are rare)
    • *Super Famicom (Japanese releases are rarely .fig, above extensions are more common)
    *Super NES Saved Data Files (.srm)
    *ZSNES Save States (.zst, .zs1-.zs9)
  • TurboGrafx 16/PC Engine (.pce)
  • Neo Geo Pocket (.npc)

    • Virtual Machines

    See [link]
    • Virtual Floppy Disk (.vfd)
    • Virtual Hard Disk (.vhd)
    • Virtual Undo Disk (.vud)
    • Virtual Machine Configuration (.vmc)
    • Virtual Machine Saved State (.vsv)

    EMC See [link]

    • 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)

    Webpage

    Other

    See also

    List of file extensions by alphabet

    External links

     

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