File Extension Abbreviations

Here is a list of some file extensions and their abbreviations.

Video File Formats:

AVI= Audio Video Interleave.

RTS= Real Time Streaming.

MP4= MPEG-4 video file.

3GPP=3rd Generation Partnership Project.

WMV=Windows Media Video.

DVX= DivX Video.

Audio File Formats:

• MP3= MPEG layer lll.
• M4A= MPEG-4 Audio File.
• AAC= Advanced Audio Coding.
• WMA= Windows Media Audio.
• WAV= Waveform Audio.
• IMY= iMelody Ringtone.
• AMR= Adaptive Multi-Rate Codec.
• NRT= Nokia Ringtone.
• XMF= Extensible Music File.

Image File Formats:

• GIF= Graphic Interchangable Format.
• JPEG= Joint Photographic Expert Group.
• BMP= Bitmap.
• WBMP= Wireless Bitmap Image.
• PNG= Portable Network Graphics.
• M3G= Mobile 3D Graphics.
• SWF= Shock Wave Flash.

Mobile Applications File Formats:

• JAR= Java Archive. (Java applications extension)
• JAD= Java Application Descriptor.
• SIS= Symbian OS Installer File. (Nokia application extension)
• APK= Application Package (for android application extension)

• NTH= Nokia Theme(series 40).
• THM= Themes (SonyEricsson).
• MMF= Synthetic Music Mobile Application File.

Documents File Formats:

• DOC= Document (Microsoft Corporation).
• PDF= Portable Document Format.
• HTML= Hyper Text Markup Language.
• XML= eXtensible Markup Language
• CSS= Cascading Style Sheet
• WML= Wireless Markup Language.
• CHM= Compiled HTML Help (Microsoft)
• TXT= Text document
• EXE= Executable file
• ELF= Executable and Linkable Format (linux executable)