I shall repeat my post title....How much do you know about "File format"?

Learning file formats is very fun....
You can determine one's file by looking at its file format....

For example: Don't Stop Me Now.mp3
I can already tell that it is a compressed audio file. Its full name is "MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3", commonly referred as MP3.

Cool right? You must learn some too!

Alright. First you have to know a few common file formats.

Compressed/Archive
zip, dmg, rar

Graphics
jpeg, jpg, png, bmp, psd, gif

PSD and GIF are quite special, they both can be in video and graphics categories. People used to make short animation with pictures and they save it as GIF.
PSD is Adobe Photoshop Drawing, usually 2D graphics or non motion picture. Nowadays, people can even make a video using Photoshop, therefore, PSD can be in Video category as well.

Video
mov, wmv, avi, rmvb, rm, mpeg, mpg, mkv, ogg, flv, dv, swf

I've been working on video stuff recently, so I'm quite familiar with these formats. These formats are quite widely used. You came to that when you start video editing. But for now you just need to get a right video player that plays those video formats.

Sound
mp3, wav, wma, aac, aiff, m4a

I'm sure most of you know MP3. Nothing special already. When you came accross recording, you will have to use WAV, it is "Microsoft Wave", an uncompressed lossless audio, extremely high quality.

Web
html, xhtml, htm, xml, php

I'm a web designer in school, these are formats that we used. Currently, our school Cheras LimeLight is also using HTML for home page. The HTML loads all necessary contents such as SWF, SWF is a video format but I'm using it for web as well, that's why you can see many motions in the LimeLight. Those SWF files are controlled by fully coded XML which is also linked by HTML. So basically, you open the webpage, load HTML>find XML>load SWF.

**Learn its full name as well, it might help you in EST**

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