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, GLCD, HDP/WDP, HDR,ICL, ICO, IFF/LBM, IMG, JLS, JP2, JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDC, Mac PICT², MAG, MED,MID, MNG/JNG, MOV¹², MP3, MPG/MPEG¹, MPO, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG/NSL/OTB/GSM, OGG, PBM, PCX, PDF, PDN, 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, WEBP, WSQ, XBM, XCF, 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 |
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| AIF | Sound file, Audio Interchange Format | YES¹ ³ |
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| ANI | Animated Cursor format for Microsoft Windows | YES |
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| AU, SND | Encoded Audio format used by Sun and NeXT machines | YES¹ ³ |
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| AVI, WMV, ASF | Audio Video Interleaved: Microsoft's video for Windows | YES |
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| B3D | BodyPaint 3D Format | YES³ |
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| BMP, DIB | Windows Bitmap | YES | YES |
| CAM | Casio digital camera file | YES³ (JPG version) |
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| CLP | Windows clipboard format | YES |
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| CPT | CorelDraw Photopaint image | YES (CPT version 6) |
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| CRW, CR2 | Canon RAW image | YES³ |
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| CUR | Cursor Resource file format for Microsoft Windows | YES |
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| DCM, ACR, IMA | Dicom/ACR file format for medical images | YES³ |
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| DCX | Multipage PCX files format | YES |
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| DDS | Direct Draw Surface | YES³ |
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| DJVU, IW44 | DjVu file format | YES³ |
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| DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVG | CAD formats | YES³ |
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| ECW | Enhanced Compressed Wavelet | YES³ | YES³ |
| EMF | Enhanced Metafile Format | YES | YES |
| EPS, PS, PDF, AI | PostScript formats | YES³ |
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| EXR | OpenEXR format | YES³ |
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| FITS | Flexible Image Transport System | YES³ |
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| FLI, FLC | Autodesk animation format | YES² ³ |
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| FPX | FlashPix format | YES³ |
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| FSH | EA Sports FSH format | YES³ | YES³ |
| G3 | Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus format | YES³ |
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| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format | YES | YES |
| HDP, WDP | Microsoft HD Photo format | YES³ |
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| HDR | High Dynamic Range | YES³ |
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| ICL, EXE, DLL | Icon Library formats | YES (icons) |
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| ICO | Windows Icon | YES | YES |
| IFF, LBM | Interchange File Format | YES |
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| IMG | GEM Raster image | YES³ |
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| JLS | JPEG-LS, Lossless JPEG | YES³ |
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| 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 |
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| Mac PICT, QTIF | Macintosh PICT format | YES² ³ |
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| MED | MED/OctaMED sound format | YES³ |
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| MID, RMI | Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) | YES³ |
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| MNG, JNG | Multiple Network Graphics | YES³ |
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| MOV, MP4 | QuickTime Movie format | YES² ³ |
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| MP3 | MPEG audio layer 3 format | YES³ |
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| MPG, MPEG | Moving Pictures Experts Group format | YES¹ ³ |
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| MrSID, SID | LizardTech's SID Wavelet format | YES³ |
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| 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 |
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| NLM/NOL/NGG/OTB/GSM | Nokia/LogoManager files | YES³ |
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| OGG | OGG Vorbis audio format | YES³ |
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| PBM | Portable Bitmap file format | YES | YES |
| PCX | PC Paintbrush format from ZSoft Corporation | YES | YES |
| PCD | Kodak Photo CD | YES |
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| PDN | Paint.NET file format | YES³ |
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| PGM | Portable Greymap file format | YES | YES |
| PIC | Softimage PICT | YES³ |
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| PNG | Portable Network Graphics | YES | YES |
| PPM | Portable Pixelmap format | YES | YES |
| PSD | Adobe PhotoShop format | YES |
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| PSP | Paint Shop Pro file format | YES³ |
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| RAS, SUN | Sun Raster format | YES³ |
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| RA | RealAudio sound format | YES³ |
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| RAW | Raw (binary) data | YES³ |
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| RLE | Utah RLE format | YES³ |
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| SFF | Structured Fax File | YES³ |
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| SFW | Seattle Film Works format | YES³ |
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| SGI, RGB, RGBA | Silicon Graphics format | YES³ |
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| SWF, FLVFLV | Macromedia's Flash/Shockwave format | YES³ |
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| TGA | Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA) | YES | YES |
| TIF, TIFF | Tagged Image File Format | YES | YES |
| TTF | True Type Font | YES³ |
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| TXT | Text (ASCII) file | YES |
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| WAD | WAD3 game format | YES³ |
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| WAL | Quake 2 textures | YES³ |
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| WAV, WMA | Windows audio file | YES³ |
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| WBC/WBZ | WebShots formats | YES³ |
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| WBMP | WAP Bitmap format | YES³ |
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| WEBP | Weppy file format | YES³ | YES³ |
| WMF | Windows Metafile format | YES |
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| WSQ | Wavelet Scaler Quantization | YES³ |
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| XBM | X11 Bitmap | YES³ |
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| XCF | GIMP file format | YES³ |
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| XPM | X11 Pixmap | YES³ |
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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. |