File Formats

Matroska Video. A versatile multimedia container that can hold video, audio, subtitles, and metadata.

A modern image format that offers better compression for the web than JPG or PNG.

Scalable Vector Graphics. An XML-based image format that can scale to any size without pixelation.

A lightweight markup language for formatting plain text. Used all over the web, including in this article!

Similar to JSON but strives to be even more human-friendly. Great for configuration files.

A widely used markup language for encoding documents in a way both humans and computers can read.

Lightweight data interchange format that’s easy for humans to read and write.

For slideshows and lectures. Microsoft’s PPTX is commonly used.

Data organized into a grid of cells. Microsoft Excel’s XLSX is a de facto standard.

Moving pictures and sound together. MP4, AVI and MKV are prevalent formats.