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+<concept id="GUID-919E32B1-1316-4B09-B668-E744E78B0B6E" xml:lang="en"><title>Supported
+file types</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>This section describes the file types supported by the Media Fetch API
+and the metadata system (MdS).</p>
+<p>The Media Fetch API and the <xref href="GUID-1BCF7ADD-2B1D-4C58-AADB-250101C29620.dita">metadata
+system</xref> support the following types of multimedia items:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p>Video files</p></li>
+<li><p>Audio files</p></li>
+<li><p>Image files</p></li>
+<li><p>Streaming links</p></li>
+<li><p>Playlist files</p></li>
+</ul>
+<p>The following table describes the supported video files.</p>
+<table id="GUID-1065D769-B1EA-4FD3-82CA-82760BB24921"><title>Supported video
+files</title>
+<tgroup cols="3"><colspec colname="col1"/><colspec colname="col2"/>
+<thead>
+<row>
+<entry><p>File extension</p></entry>
+<entry><p>MIME type</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Description</p></entry>
+</row>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+<row>
+<entry><p>3g2</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/3gp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>3GP is a multimedia container format that is defined by the Third
+Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for use on 3G mobile devices but that
+can also be played on some 2G and 4G devices.</p><p>The 3GPP2 standard is
+defined for CDMA-based devices and has the file extension 3g2.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>3gp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/3gp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>The 3GPP standard is defined for GSM-based devices and has the file
+extension 3gp.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>avi</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/avi</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Audio video interleave (AVI) is a multimedia container format introduced
+by Microsoft as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain
+both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video
+playback.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>flv</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/x-flv</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Flash video is a file format used to deliver video over the Internet
+using Adobe Flash Player. Flash video content may also be embedded within
+SWF files.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>m4v</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/mp4</p></entry>
+<entry><p>M4V is a standard file format for videos for iPod and PlayStation
+Portable devices developed by Apple. It is based on the MPEG-4 Part 2 compression.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>mp4</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/mp4</p></entry>
+<entry><p>MPEG-4 is a multimedia container format standard that is most commonly
+used to store digital audio and digital video streams, especially those defined
+by MPEG. It can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still
+images.</p><p>MPEG-4 files with audio and video generally use the standard
+mp4 extension.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>mpeg4</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/mp4</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Another file name extension for MPEG-4 files.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>mpg4</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/mp4</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Another file name extension for MPEG-4 files.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>ram</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/3gpp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>RealAudio metadata (RAM) is typically a small text file that contains
+a link to the audio stream.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>rm</p></entry>
+<entry><p>application/vnd.rn-realmedia</p></entry>
+<entry><p>RealMedia is a multimedia container format created by RealNetworks
+that is typically used in conjunction with RealVideo and RealAudio for streaming
+content over the Internet.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>rmvb</p></entry>
+<entry><p>application/vnd.rn-realmedia-vbr</p></entry>
+<entry><p>RealMedia variable bitrate (RMVB) is a container streaming content
+over the Internet with variable bit rate.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>rtp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>application/x-nokia-teh-rtp</p></entry>
+<entry><p/></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>rv</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/vnd.rn-realvideo</p></entry>
+<entry><p>RealVideo is a proprietary video format developed by RealNetworks
+that is usually paired with RealAudio and packaged in a RealMedia (rm) container. </p></entry>
+</row>
+</tbody>
+</tgroup>
+</table>
+<p>The following table describes the supported audio files.</p>
+<table id="GUID-6CBC4824-63AF-49E4-A8E6-71816BE38E4D"><title>Supported audio
+files</title>
+<tgroup cols="3"><colspec colname="col1"/><colspec colname="col2"/>
+<thead>
+<row>
+<entry><p>File extension</p></entry>
+<entry><p>MIME type</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Description</p></entry>
+</row>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+<row>
+<entry><p>3gp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/3gpp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>The 3GPP standard is defined for GSM-based devices and has the file
+extension 3gp.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>3gpp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/3gpp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Another file name extension for 3GPP files.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>aac</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/aac</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Advanced audio coding (AAC) is a standardized, compression and encoding
+scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format,
+AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at many bit rates.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>amr</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/amr</p></entry>
+<entry><p>A file format for storing spoken audio using the adaptive multi-rate
+(AMR) codec. AMR is a patented audio data compression scheme optimized for
+speech coding.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>au</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/au</p></entry>
+<entry><p>A simple audio file format. </p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>awb</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/amr-wb</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Adaptive multi-rate – wide band (AMR-WB) is a patented speech coding
+standard developed after the AMR that provides excellent speech quality due
+to wider speech bandwidth.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>m4a</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/mp4</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Audio-only MPEG-4 files generally have an m4a extension. This is
+especially true of non-protected content. </p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>mid</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/midi</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) is an industry-standard
+protocol that enables electronic musical instruments, such as keyboard controllers,
+computers, and other electronic equipment, to communicate, control, and synchronize
+with each other. </p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>midi</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/midi</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Another file name extension for MIDI files.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>mp3</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/mpeg</p></entry>
+<entry><p>MPEG-1 audio layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented
+digital audio encoding format using a form of data compression. It is a common
+audio format for consumer audio storage and widely used for digital audio
+compression for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>mp4</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/mp4</p></entry>
+<entry><p>MPEG-4 files with audio and video generally use the standard mp4
+extension.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>mxmf</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/vnd.nokia.mobile-xmf</p></entry>
+<entry><p>The extensible music format (XMF) is a tree-based digital container
+format used to bundle music-oriented content, such as a MIDI file and optionally
+the sounds it uses, liner notes or other content grouped by language-codes. </p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>nrt</p></entry>
+<entry><p>-</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Nokia Ringing Tone.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>ra</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/vnd.rn-realaudio</p></entry>
+<entry><p>RealAudio is a proprietary audio format developed by RealNetworks.
+It uses a variety of audio codecs, ranging from low-bitrate formats that can
+be used over dialup modems, to high-fidelity formats for music.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>rng</p></entry>
+<entry><p>application/vnd.nokia.ringing-tone</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Nokia Ringing Tone.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>spmid</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/sp-midi</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Scalable polyphony MIDI (SP-MIDI) is a MIDI variant for mobile applications
+where different players may have different numbers of musical voices. SP-MIDI
+is a component of 3GPP.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>wav</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/wav</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Waveform audio format is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard
+for storing an audio bit stream on computers.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>wma</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/x-ms-wma</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Windows Media Audio (WMA) is an audio data compression technology
+developed by Microsoft as a part of the Windows Media framework.</p></entry>
+</row>
+</tbody>
+</tgroup>
+</table>
+<p>The following table describes the supported image files.</p>
+<table id="GUID-346964CB-AD9A-458D-9E00-2745385A387E"><title>Supported image
+files</title>
+<tgroup cols="3"><colspec colname="col1"/><colspec colname="col2"/>
+<thead>
+<row>
+<entry><p>File extension</p></entry>
+<entry><p>MIME type</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Description</p></entry>
+</row>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+<row>
+<entry><p>bmp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/bmp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>An image file format used to store digital images.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>gif</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/gif</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Graphics interchange format (GIF) is a bitmap image format that
+provides good-quality color images that take up a small amount of space.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>j2k</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/jp2</p></entry>
+<entry><p>JPEG 2000 is a wavelet-based image compression standard.</p><p>Files
+that contain JPEG 2000 code stream data for testing purposes might use the
+filename extension j2k.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>jp2</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/jp2</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Files that conform to the JPEG 2000 specification, ISO/IEC 15444-1,
+use the standardized filename extension jp2.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>jpeg</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/jpeg</p></entry>
+<entry><p>JPEG is a method for compressing photographic images.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>jpf</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/jp2</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Another file name extension for JPEG 2000 files.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>jpg</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/jpeg</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Another file name extension for JPEG files.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>jpx</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/jpx</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Files that conform to the extended part-2 JPEG 2000 specification,
+ISO/IEC 15444-2, use the filename extension jpx.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>mbm</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/x-epoc-mbm</p></entry>
+<entry><p>A multi-bitmap is a container for a set of bitmap images. MBM files
+can be used by Symbian applications to store graphical content.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>ota</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/vnd.nokia.ota-bitmap</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Over-the-air (OTA) images.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>png</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/png</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Portable networking graphics (PNG) is a bit map image format that
+was designed for transferring images on the Internet.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>tif</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/tiff</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Tagged image file format (TIFF) is a file format for storing images,
+including photographs and line art.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>tiff</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/tiff</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Another file name extension for TIFF files.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>wbmb</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/vnd.wap.wbmp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Wireless bitmap (WBMP) is a monochrome image file format that is
+optimized for mobile devices. </p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>wmf</p></entry>
+<entry><p>image/x-wmf</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Windows metafile (WMF) is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows
+systems that is intended to be portable between applications and may contain
+both vector and bitmap components.</p></entry>
+</row>
+</tbody>
+</tgroup>
+</table>
+<p>The following table describes the supported streaming links.</p>
+<table id="GUID-EDF212A0-68CC-45BE-9FA4-4B7927654113"><title>Supported streaming
+links</title>
+<tgroup cols="3"><colspec colname="col1"/><colspec colname="col2"/>
+<thead>
+<row>
+<entry><p>File extension</p></entry>
+<entry><p>MIME type</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Description</p></entry>
+</row>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+<row>
+<entry><p>asx</p></entry>
+<entry><p>video/x-ms-asf</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Advanced systems format (ASF) is a Microsoft proprietary digital
+audio and digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media.
+The most common file types contained within an ASF file are Windows media
+audio (WMA) and Windows media video (WMV).</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>sdp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>application/sdp</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Streaming Download Project Multimedia is a source project to allow
+the download of streaming media.</p></entry>
+</row>
+<row>
+<entry><p>ram</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/vnd.rn-realaudio</p></entry>
+<entry><p>RealAudio metadata (RAM) is typically a small text file that contains
+a link to the audio stream.</p></entry>
+</row>
+</tbody>
+</tgroup>
+</table>
+<p>The following table describes the supported playlist files.</p>
+<table id="GUID-3F176A15-488C-470B-B97B-FCC4D36F2CCC"><title>Supported playlist
+files</title>
+<tgroup cols="3"><colspec colname="col1"/><colspec colname="col2"/>
+<thead>
+<row>
+<entry><p>File extension</p></entry>
+<entry><p>MIME type</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Description</p></entry>
+</row>
+</thead>
+<tbody>
+<row>
+<entry><p>m3u</p></entry>
+<entry><p>audio/x-mpegurl</p></entry>
+<entry><p>Moving Picture Experts Group Audio Layer 3 Uniform Resource Locator,
+MP3 URL is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists.</p></entry>
+</row>
+</tbody>
+</tgroup>
+</table>
+<section id="GUID-1C3B1B9C-508F-42EC-ACBE-53898884810A"><title>See also</title><p><xref href="GUID-A825B62E-B5F6-5FDD-B267-E47103D57FD8.dita">Supported Image Formats Guide</xref></p><p><xref href="GUID-6021BE18-3416-55DF-A628-0071024D7586.dita">Video Renderer Resource File</xref></p><p><xref href="GUID-0A6C8413-8CED-512C-BED8-754D92A44FAC.dita">Querying for Parser Supported
+Formats</xref></p></section>
+</conbody></concept>
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