Music, Graphic, and Movie Formats used in Multimedia

Education 362 – Malone College – School of Education – Fall 2004

Sources used to compile information on the following formats are listed on this page.

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Acronym Finder: http://www.acronymfinder.com/

Webopedia: http://www.pcwebopedia.com/

One Look Dictionary: http://www.onelook.com/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/

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Webopedia Source Wikipedia Source

Common Music Formats:

WAV Extension: (.wav) Windows Audio Volume

MIDI Extension: (.mid) Musical Instrument Digital Interface

MP3 Extension: (.mp3) Moving Picture Experts Group Layer-3

Common Graphic Formats:

BMP Extension: (.bmp) Bit Mapped

GIF Extension: (.gif) Graphics Interchange Format

JPEG Extension: (.jpg) Joint Photographic Experts Group

PNG Extension: (.png) Portable Network Graphics

Common Movie Formats:

AVI Extension: (.avi) Audio Video Interleave

QT Extension: (.mov) QuickTime

MPEG Extension: (.mpg) Moving Picture Experts Group

Directory of File Extensions: http://www.sharpened.net/helpcenter/extensions.php

Multimedia on the WWW: http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_intro.asp

Multimedia Video Formats: http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_videoformats.asp

Multimedia Audio Formats: http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_soundformats.asp

Playing Sounds on WWW: http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_browsersounds.asp

Playing Videos on WWW: http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_browservideos.asp

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Tom Love Malone College Summer 2004