Standards: Appendix F - Abbreviated Container Type Names
This is a list of the abbreviations for media container files which are commonly used within documentation.
This is an Appendix to our series of articles on Standards.
These are not file extensions, they are abbreviations that are often used to describe media containers in documentation, which can often cause confusion.
Abbreviation | Format |
---|---|
3G2 | 3GPP2 |
3GP | 3GPP |
AIFF | Audio Interchange File Format |
ALAC | Apple Lossless Audio Codec |
ASF | Advanced Systems Format |
AVI | Audio Video Interleave |
DMF | DivX Media Format |
EVO | Enhanced VOB |
F4V | Flash Video |
FLAC | Free Lossless Audio Codec |
FLV | Flash Video |
ISOBMFF | ISO Base Media File Format |
M2TS | Blu-ray BDAV MPEG-2 transport stream |
MKV | Matroška nested object file |
MP4 | MPEG-4 Part 14 |
MXF | Material Exchange Format |
PS | MPEG program stream (Do not confuse with raw PostScript print stream) |
QTFF | QuickTime File Format |
RIFF | Resource Interchange File Format |
RMVB | Real Media Variable Bitrate |
TS | MPEG transport stream |
VOB | DVD Video Object |
WAV | Waveform Audio File Format |
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