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  2. File size - Wikipedia

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    File size is a measure of how much data a computer file contains or, alternately, how much storage it consumes. Typically, file size is expressed in units of measurement based on the byte . By convention, file size units use either a metric prefix (as in megabyte and gigabyte ) or a binary prefix (as in mebibyte and gibibyte ).

  3. Image file format - Wikipedia

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    An image file format is a file format for a digital image. There are many formats that can be used, such as JPEG, PNG, and GIF. Most formats up until 2022 were for storing 2D images, not 3D ones. The data stored in an image file format may be compressed or uncompressed. If the data is compressed, it may be done so using lossy compression or ...

  4. List of file formats - Wikipedia

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    SZH – files that are associated with zero unique file types (the most prevalent being the Binary Data format) Text files.cnf, .conf, .cfg – configuration file substantially software-specific.log – logfiles usually text, but sometimes binary.asc, .text, .txt – human-readable plain text, usually no more specific; Partial files

  5. ZIP (file format) - Wikipedia

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    ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. A ZIP file may contain one or more files or directories that may have been compressed. The ZIP file format permits a number of compression algorithms, though DEFLATE is the most common.

  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. 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 .

  8. Raw image format - Wikipedia

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    Raw image format. A camera raw image file contains unprocessed or minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, a motion picture film scanner, or other image scanner. [1] [2] Raw files are so named because they are not yet processed, and contain large amounts of potentially redundant data.

  9. Audio file format - Wikipedia

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    Audio file format. 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 ...