File types

File types

1. Video

   • MP4
     • It is a compressed file format that can contain not only audio, as Mp3, but also video and subtitles.
   • AVI
     • (Audio Video Interleave)
       • Commonly used by Microsoft for storing both video and audio data in a single file. It is less compressed than other.
   • WebM
     • Is a compressed video saved in the WebM format, an open, high-quality video standard. It stores video compressed using VP8 technology and audio compressed. Are commonly used for deIivering online videos using.
   • WMV
     • (Windows Media Video)
       • (Windows Media Video) it is ompressed with one or more of Microsoft's video compression formats.

2. Sound

   • MP3
     • MP3 is a digital music format for creating high-quality sound files. It has transformed the way people buy and listen to music.
   • WAV
     • WAV is a file extension for an audio file format created by Microsoft. The WAV file has become a standard PC audio file format for everything from system and game sounds to CD-quality audio.
   • AIFF
     • AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) is one of the two most-used audio file formats used in the Apple Macintosh operating system. AIFF is sometimes referred to as "Apple Interchange File Format."
   • M4A
     • M4A is a file extension for an audio file encoded with advanced audio coding (AAC) which is a lossy compression. M4A stands for MPEG 4 Audio.

3. Pictures

   • JPEG
     • The JPG is probably the most common file format now in use for storing digital images.. It is ideal for images that use more than 256 colours, such as digital photographs. PG files can be saved at various quality settings. The lower the quality percentage, the higher the compression rate; therefore if storage space is an issue, you should aim to save your JPG file at 30 per cent quality.
   • GIF
     • (Graphics Interchange Format)
       • Is commonly used on the web. It is ideal for images that have large blocks of a single colour, and it can support up to a maximum of 256 colors.
   • TIFF
     • (Tagged Image File)
       • It can be also compressed to reduce the file size, while still maintaining a high degree of image detail. It can be saved without compression to retain 100 per cent of the original image taken
   • BMP
     • (Bit mapped)
       • It is used for general storage purposes, such as when images are awaiting editing - or as wallpaper for a Windows desktop. BMP images are large files that require a lot of storage space because no effort is made to reduce the file size.

4. Text

   • ASCII
     • ( American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
       • Is a 7-bit set of codes that allows 128 different characters.
   • TXT
     • Text only (no graphics) version of a document
   • RTF
     • (Rich text format )
       • RTF files support text style formatting, as well as images within the text. RTF files can be converted into a different format by changing the formatting selection when saving the word document.
   • DOC
     • DOC is a document file format used by Microsoft Word, also used with most word processing software, including OpenOffice. DOC stands for DOCument file. A DOC file can contain formatted text, images, tables, graphs, charts, page formatting, and print settings.

5. Numbers

   • Real
     • A 'Real' data type is numerical data which contains decimal numbers.
   • Integer
     • Whole numbers (4, 27, 644)
   • Currency
     • Money is such a common type of data that most databases and spreadsheets have.
   • Date
     • Date value