AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a modern image format that uses AV1 compression to deliver smaller file sizes than JPEG and WebP while maintaining excellent image quality.

File Formats Explained | Complete Format Guide

Image Formats

What is AVIF (AV1 Image File Format)?

Complete guide to the AVIF file format

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What is BMP?

BMP (Bitmap) is an uncompressed raster image format developed by Microsoft that stores each pixel's color data directly, resulting in large files but perfect quality with no compression artifacts.

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What is CR2?

Complete guide to the CR2 file format

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What is DNG (Digital Negative)?

Complete guide to the DNG file format

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What is EPS (Encapsulated PostScript)?

Complete guide to the EPS file format

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What is GIF?

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a bitmap image format that supports animation and is limited to 256 colors, making it the long-standing standard for short looping animations on the web.

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What is HEIC?

HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) is a modern image format developed by Apple that uses HEVC compression to store photos at roughly half the file size of JPG while maintaining superior image quality.

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What is ICO?

ICO (Icon) is a Windows image format that stores multiple sizes and color depths of a single icon in one file, primarily used for application icons and website favicons.

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What is JPEG?

Complete guide to the JPEG file format

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What is JPG (JPEG)?

JPG (JPEG) is a lossy image compression format developed in 1992, widely used for photographs and web images due to its excellent balance of quality and small file size.

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What is JXL (JPEG XL)?

Complete guide to the JXL file format

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What is NEF?

Complete guide to the NEF file format

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What is PNG?

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a lossless image format that supports transparency, making it ideal for graphics, logos, and web images that require sharp edges and pixel-perfect quality.

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What is PSD (Photoshop Document)?

Complete guide to the PSD file format

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What is RAW Image?

Complete guide to the RAW file format

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What is SVG?

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an XML-based vector image format that describes graphics using mathematical shapes rather than pixels, allowing infinite scaling without any loss of quality.

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What is TGA (Truevision TGA)?

Complete guide to the TGA file format

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What is TIFF?

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is a flexible lossless image format widely used in professional photography, printing, and archival work due to its support for high bit-depth, layers, and multiple compression methods.

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What is WebP?

WebP is a modern image format developed by Google that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for web images, producing files 25-35% smaller than comparable JPG or PNG files.

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Video Formats

What is 3GP (Third Generation Partnership)?

Complete guide to the 3GP file format

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What is AV1?

AV1 is a modern open-source video codec by the Alliance for Open Media that delivers superior compression vs H.264 and H.265, ideal for streaming.

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What is AVI?

AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a Windows multimedia container format developed by Microsoft in 1992 that can hold video and audio encoded with various codecs in a single file.

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What is DivX?

DivX is a video codec popular in the early 2000s for compressing DVD-quality video into small files for internet sharing.

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What is FLV (Flash Video)?

Complete guide to the FLV file format

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What is HEVC (H.265)?

Complete guide to the HEVC file format

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What is M4V (iTunes Video)?

Complete guide to the M4V file format

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What is MKV?

MKV (Matroska Video) is an open-source video container format that can hold unlimited audio tracks, subtitle tracks, and video streams in a single file, making it the most feature-rich format for storing movies and TV shows.

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What is MOV?

MOV is Apple's QuickTime video container format that stores high-quality video, audio, and effects in a flexible track-based structure, widely used in professional video production on Mac.

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What is MP4?

MP4 (MPEG-4 Part 14) is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but which can also store subtitles, images, and other data.

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What is MPEG?

Complete guide to the MPEG file format

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What is OGV?

Complete guide to the OGV file format

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What is RealMedia?

RealMedia (.rm) is a multimedia container format developed by RealNetworks for internet streaming in the late 1990s and 2000s.

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What is SWF (Flash)?

SWF (Shockwave Flash) is an Adobe multimedia format for web animations and games. Flash was discontinued in 2020 and is no longer supported by modern browsers.

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What is TS (MPEG Transport Stream)?

Complete guide to the TS file format

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What is VOB?

Complete guide to the VOB file format

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What is WebM?

WebM is an open-source web video format developed by Google that uses VP8/VP9 or AV1 video codecs with Vorbis or Opus audio, designed specifically for efficient HTML5 video streaming without licensing fees.

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What is WMV (Windows Media Video)?

Complete guide to the WMV file format

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Audio Formats

What is AAC?

AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) is a lossy audio compression format designed as the successor to MP3, offering better sound quality at the same or smaller file size and used as the standard audio format by Apple, YouTube, and most streaming services.

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What is AC3?

Complete guide to the AC3 file format

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What is AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format)?

Complete guide to the AIFF file format

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What is ALAC?

Complete guide to the ALAC file format

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What is AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate)?

Complete guide to the AMR file format

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What is APE?

Complete guide to the APE file format

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What is FLAC?

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an open-source audio format that compresses audio without any quality loss, preserving the exact original audio data while reducing file size by 40-60% compared to uncompressed WAV.

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What is M4A (MPEG-4 Audio)?

Complete guide to the M4A file format

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What is MIDI?

Complete guide to the MID file format

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What is MP3?

MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III) is a lossy audio compression format that reduces file size by removing sounds the human ear is least likely to notice, achieving 10:1 compression ratios with near-CD quality.

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What is OGG?

OGG (Ogg Vorbis) is a free, open-source audio compression format that provides comparable quality to MP3 at similar or smaller file sizes without any patent restrictions, widely used in games and open-source applications.

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What is Opus Audio?

Complete guide to the OPUS file format

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What is WAV?

WAV (Waveform Audio File Format) is an uncompressed audio format developed by Microsoft and IBM that stores raw audio data, providing perfect quality at the cost of very large file sizes.

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What is WMA (Windows Media Audio)?

Complete guide to the WMA file format

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Document Formats

What is CSV?

CSV (Comma-Separated Values) is a plain text format that stores tabular data as rows of values separated by commas, making it the most universal format for exchanging spreadsheet and database data between applications.

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What is DOC?

Complete guide to the DOC file format

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What is DOCX (Microsoft Word)?

Complete guide to the DOCX file format

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What is EPUB?

EPUB (Electronic Publication) is an open ebook format based on HTML and CSS that allows text to reflow and adapt to different screen sizes, making it the standard format for digital books across most e-readers.

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What is HTML?

Complete guide to the HTML file format

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What is Markdown?

Complete guide to the MD file format

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What is PDF?

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format developed by Adobe that presents documents with text, images, and formatting in a way that is independent of hardware, software, and operating systems.

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