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JPEG or JPG: Joint Photographic Experts Group (graphics file compression standard)
2. MPEG: Moving Picture Experts Group (defines compression standards)
3. GIF: Graphic Interchange Format
4.PNG: Portable Network Graphics (Comparatively better then JPEG and support binary transparency and
alpha channel transparency)
5. AVI Stands for Audio Video Interleaved, storing sound and moving pictures in RIFF format developed
by Microsoft
6. DVD DVD once stood for Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc, but now it just stands for DVD
the next generation of optical disc storage technology. DVD is essentially a bigger, faster CD that can hold
cinema-like video, better-than-CD audio, and computer data.
7. WMV Windows Media file with Audio and/or Video (WMV): You can use a WMV file either to download
and play files or to stream content. The WMV file format is similar to the ASF file format.
8. MP3- MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III,[4] more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented encoding
format for digital audio which uses a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for
consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and
playback of music on most digital audio players.
3GP - 3RD GENERATION PROTOCOL
AAC - ADVANCED AUDIO CODEC
AC3 - DOLBY DIGITAL SOUND FILE
AVI - Stands for Audio Video Interleaved, storing sound and moving pictures in RIFF format developed by
Microsoft.
AIFF - AUDIO INTERCHANGE FILE FORMAT
DVD - Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc,
AMR - ADOPTIVE MULTI RATE
AWB - ADOPTIVE MULTI RATE WIDEBAND
CDA - COMPACT DISK AUDIO
DLL - DYNAMIK LINK LIBRARY
EXE - EXECUTABLE FORMAT
FLAC - FREE LOSSLESS AUDIO CODEC
FLV - FLASH LIVE VIDEO
GIF - GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT
JAD - JAVA APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
JAR - JAVA ARCHIVE
M3U - An .m3u file is a special type of metafile playlist that is used with MP3 files that have an .
MOV - QuickTime Content (.mov, .qt) a file format developed by Apple Computer to create, edit, publish,
and view multimedia files.
MPEG - An ISO/ITU standard for compressing video offering lossy compression technique (some data of the
original image is lost during the compression).
MIDI - MUSICAL INSTRUMENT DIGITAL INTERFACE
VCD - stands for 'Video Compact Disc' and basically it is a CD that contains moving pictures and sound.
MP2 - MPEG AUDIO LAYER 2
MP3 - MPEG AUDIO LAYER 3
MP4 - MPEG LAYER 4 MPEG - MOTION PICTURE EXPERTS GROUP
WMA - Windows Media Audio.
SIS - SYMBIAN INSTALLATION SOURCE
VCD - VIDEO COMPACT DISK
WAV - WAVEFORM PCM AUDIO
ZIP - ZONE IMPROVEMENT PLAN
WMP - Windows Media Player, a multimedia audio and video player bundled with the Windows Operating
System.