Multimedia Formats

• .aif (Standard for Apple computers)
• .asf (Microsoft/Realaudio NetShow streaming audio and other data).
• .au (Sound file standard for NeXT and Sun Sparc computers)
• .avi (MIicrosoft Sound and video)
• .mov/.qt (Apple Quick Time movie)
• .mpg/.mpeg (Mpeg, Moving Picture Experts Grooup, video audoi files)
• .ra (Progressive Networks streaming audio)
• .wav (Standard Windows audio format. Different compression schemes supported)
• .snd (Apple, SUN, NeXT with variations)
• .mid (MIDI sound control files)
• The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is typically used for "rich media"/multimedia presentations which integrate streaming audio and video with images, text or any other media type. (1997-) http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
• VoiceXML (in and out), (2001-) http://www.w3.org/TR/voicexml20/

• .gif (compresed small pictures 256 colors on the web. Origiallt from CompuServe)
• .jpeg (for larger compressed images on the web. Adjustable quality).
• .png (Portable Network Graphics Specification)
• .dwf (Drawing Web Format, Autodesk)
• .pdf (Portable Document Format, Acrobat, Adobe Inc.)
• .doc (Micrososft Word document
• .wpd (Word Perfect documents)
• .rtf (Microsoft Rich Text Format)
• .svg (Scalable Vector Graphics) (SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. SVG allows for three types of graphic objects: vector graphic shapes (e.g., paths consisting of straight lines and curves), images and text, http://www.w3.org)

• .wrl (virtual reality mark-up language models, Cosmo). X3D based on VRML97/VRML2 and XML [3.2002]
• .swf (MacromediaShockwave files)
• .xls (Excel files).
• .co (Cult3D files)

• ISMA 1.0. Streaming transmission of video and sound over Internet using MPEG-4. [10.2001]

• Wotsit's Format, http://www.wotsit.org/
• Whatis?com, http://whatis.com/