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  2. Comparison of e-book formats - Wikipedia

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    The following is a comparison of e-book formats used to create and publish e-books. The EPUB format is the most widely supported e-book format, supported by most e-book readers except Amazon Kindle [a] devices. Most e-book readers also support the PDF and plain text formats. E-book software can be used to convert e-books from one format to ...

  3. ISO base media file format - Wikipedia

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    The ISO base media file format (ISOBMFF) is a container file format that defines a general structure for files that contain time-based multimedia data such as video and audio. [3][4] It is standardized in ISO / IEC 14496-12, a.k.a. MPEG-4 Part 12, and was formerly also published as ISO/IEC 15444-12, a.k.a. JPEG 2000 Part 12.

  4. Video file format - Wikipedia

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    Video file format. A video file format is a type of file format for storing digital video data on a computer system. Video is almost always stored using lossy compression to reduce the file size. A video file normally consists of a container (e.g. in the Matroska format) containing visual (video without audio) data in a video coding format (e.g ...

  5. PDF - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 September 2024. Portable Document Format, a digital file format For other uses, see PDF (disambiguation). Portable Document Format Adobe PDF icon Filename extension.pdf Internet media type application/pdf, application/x-pdf application/x-bzpdf application/x-gzpdf Type code PDF (including a single ...

  6. Media type - Wikipedia

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    Media type. In information and communications technology, a media type, [1][2] content type[2][3] or MIME type[1][4][5] is a two-part identifier for file formats and content formats . Their purpose is comparable to filename extensions and uniform type identifiers, in that they identify the intended data format.

  7. List of file formats - Wikipedia

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    ARC – Nintendo U8 Archive (mostly Yaz0 compressed) ARJ – ARJ compressed file. ASS, SSA – ASS (also SSA): a subtitles file created by Aegisub, a video typesetting application (also a Halo game engine file) B – (B file) Similar to .a, but less compressed. BA – BA: Scifer Archive (.ba), Scifer External Archive Type.

  8. Digital library - Wikipedia

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    The Biodiversity Heritage Library website, an example of a digital library. A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital media formats or a library accessible through the ...

  9. History of PDF - Wikipedia

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    History of PDF. The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe Systems, introduced at the Windows and OS/2 Conference in January 1993 and remained a proprietary format until it was released as an open standard in 2008. Since then, it has been under the control of an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee of ...