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  2. Audio file format - Wikipedia

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    An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, often using lossy compression. The data can be a raw bitstream in an audio coding format, but it is ...

  3. MP4 file format - Wikipedia

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    MPEG-4 Part 14, or MP4, is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows streaming over the Internet.

  4. MP3 - Wikipedia

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    MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) [4] is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, [11][12] with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

  5. File format - Wikipedia

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    File format. wav-file: 2.1 megabytes. ogg-file: 154 kilobytes. A file format is a standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium. File formats may be either proprietary or free.

  6. 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 ...

  7. WAV - Wikipedia

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    Extended to. BWF, RF64. Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; [ 3 ][ 6 ][ 7 ] pronounced / wæv / or / weɪv / [ 8 ]) is an audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computers. The format was developed and published for the first time in 1991 by IBM and Microsoft.

  8. WebM - Wikipedia

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    WebM is an open media file format designed for the web. WebM files consist of video streams compressed with the VP8 video codec and audio streams compressed with the Vorbis audio codec. The WebM file structure is based on the Matroska media container. ^ WebM (Partial draft). Sustainability of Digital Formats.

  9. FLAC - Wikipedia

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    FLAC (/ f l æ k /; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software package that includes a codec implementation.