Supported File Formats

 

 

 

These are the file formats/extensions supported by the current version of IrfanView:

 

AIF¹, ANI, AU¹, AVI, AWD, B3D, BMP, CAM, CLP, CPT, CRW/CR2, CUR, DAT¹, DCM/ACR, DCX, DDS, DIB, DJVU, DLL/EXE, DXF/DWG/HPGL/CGM/SVG, ECW, EMF, EPS/PS/PDF/AI, EXR, FITS, FLI/FLC², FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, HDP/WDP, HDR, ICL, ICO, IFF/LBM, IMG, JLS, JP2, JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, Mac PICT², MAG, MED, MID, MNG/JNG, MOV¹², MP3, MPG/MPEG¹, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG/NSL/OTB/GSM, OGG, PBM, PCX, PDF, PGM, PIC, PhotoCD, PNG, PPM, PSD, PSP, PVR, QTIF², RAS/SUN, RealAudio, RAW, RLE, RMI, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, MrSID, SWF/FLV, SND¹, TGA, TIF/TIFF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAL, WAV, WBMP, WMF, WMA, WMV, WBC/WBZ, WSQ, XBM, XPM, (DNG, EEF, NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, PEF, SRF, X3F, RW2, NRW).

 

 

¹ Microsoft’s Media Player program is required for these formats.

² Apple’s QuickTime program is required for these formats.

 

 

Note: Many of these formats are supported through PlugIns, check the table below and read the file “i_plugins.txt” for more infos.

 

PlugIns Download:        http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm

 

 

                               IrfanView Formats Overview:

 

Extension

Format name

Open

Save

AIF

Sound file, Audio Interchange Format

YES¹ ³

ANI

Animated Cursor format for Microsoft Windows

YES

AU, SND

Encoded Audio format used by Sun and NeXT machines

YES¹ ³

AVI, WMV, ASF

Audio Video Interleaved: Microsoft’s video for Windows

YES

B3D

BodyPaint 3D Format

YES³

BMP, DIB

Windows Bitmap

YES

YES

CAM

Casio digital camera file

YES³ (JPG version)

CLP

Windows clipboard format

YES

CPT

CorelDraw Photopaint image

YES (CPT version 6)

CRW, CR2

Canon RAW image

YES³

CUR

Cursor Resource file format for Microsoft Windows

YES

DCM, ACR, IMA

Dicom/ACR file format for medical images

YES³

DCX

Multipage PCX files format

YES

DDS

Direct Draw Surface

YES³

DJVU, IW44

DjVu file format

YES³

DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVG

CAD formats

YES³

ECW

Enhanced Compressed Wavelet

YES³

YES³

EMF

Enhanced Metafile Format

YES

YES

EPS, PS, PDF, AI

PostScript formats

YES³

EXR

OpenEXR format

YES³

FITS

Flexible Image Transport System

YES³

FLI, FLC

Autodesk animation format

YES² ³

FPX

FlashPix format

YES³

FSH

EA Sports FSH format

YES³

YES³

G3

Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus format

YES³

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

YES

YES

HDP, WDP

Microsoft HD Photo format

YES³

HDR

High Dynamic Range

YES³

ICL, EXE, DLL

Icon Library formats

YES (icons)

ICO

Windows Icon

YES

YES

IFF, LBM

Interchange File Format

YES

IMG

GEM Raster image

YES³

JLS

JPEG-LS, Lossless JPEG

YES³

JP2, JPC, J2K

JPEG 2000 format

YES³

YES³

JPG, JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

YES

YES

JPM

JPEG2000/Part6, LuraDocument.jpm

YES³

YES³

KDC

Kodak digital camera format

YES³

LDF

LuraDocument Format

YES³

YES³

LWF

LuraWave Format

YES³

YES³

Mac PICT, QTIF

Macintosh PICT format

YES² ³

MED

MED/OctaMED sound format

YES³

MID, RMI

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)

YES³

MNG, JNG

Multiple Network Graphics

YES³

MOV, MP4

QuickTime Movie format

YES² ³

MP3

MPEG audio layer 3 format

YES³

MPG, MPEG

Moving Pictures Experts Group format

YES¹ ³

MrSID, SID

LizardTech’s SID Wavelet format

YES³

DNG, EFF, NEF, MRW, ORF, RAF, DCR, SRF, ARW PEF, X3F, RW2, NRW

Digital camera RAW formats (Adobe, Epson, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Fuji, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Sigma)

YES³

NLM/NOL/NGG/OTB/GSM

Nokia/LogoManager files

YES³

OGG

OGG Vorbis audio format

YES³

PBM

Portable Bitmap file format

YES

YES

PCX

PC Paintbrush format from ZSoft Corporation

YES

YES

PCD

Kodak Photo CD

YES

PGM

Portable Greymap file format

YES

YES

PIC

Softimage PICT

YES³

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

YES

YES

PPM

Portable Pixelmap format

YES

YES

PSD

Adobe PhotoShop format

YES

PSP

Paint Shop Pro file format

YES³

RAS, SUN

Sun Raster format

YES³

RA

RealAudio sound format

YES³

RAW

Raw (binary) data

YES³

RLE

Utah RLE format

YES³

SFF

Structured Fax File

YES³

SFW

Seattle Film Works format

YES³

SGI, RGB, RGBA

Silicon Graphics format

YES³

SWF, FLV

Macromedia’s Flash/Shockwave format

YES³

TGA

Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA)

YES

YES

TIF, TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

YES

YES

TTF

True Type Font

YES³

TXT

Text (ASCII) file

YES

WAD

WAD3 game format

YES³

WAL

Quake 2 textures

YES³

WAV, WMA

Windows audio file

YES³

WBC/WBZ

WebShots formats

YES³

WBMP

WAP Bitmap format

YES³

WMF

Windows Metafile format

YES

WSQ

Wavelet Scaler Quantization

YES³

XBM

X11 Bitmap

YES³

XPM

X11 Pixmap

YES³

 

¹ Microsoft’s Active Movie program is required for these formats.

² Apple’s QuickTime program is required for these formats.

³ PlugIn is required for these formats, see above for download.

 

Supported File Formats