Chapter 8 Multimedia File Formats

This chapter describes the file formats used with the Multimedia extensions. The chapter describes the structure of each file type and includes detailed lists of the data structures and fields contained in the files. The chapter also presents examples of multimedia files.

Several file formats used with the Multimedia extensions are based on the Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). This chapter defines RIFF, the preferred format for new multimedia file types. If your application requires a new file format, you should define it using the RIFF tagged file structure described in this chapter.

This chapter describes the following file formats:

Device Independent Bitmap (DIB) File Format

RIFF DIB File Format (RDIB)

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) File Format

RIFF MIDI File Format (RMID)

Multimedia Movie File Format (MMM)

Palette File Format (PAL)

Rich Text Format (RTF)

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE)