Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

This post explains how to convert files to RAR format in Windows 11/10. Microsoft has recently announced that users of Windows 11 will soon get native support for RAR files and several other archive ...

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...

Following on from the great "Worst app ever" thread, here are my opinions on file formats. I used to run Amigas (hell, I still do) and file formats really got on my nerves since I had the capability ...

How do you define file formats which are "proprietary"? For example, Libre Office can save files in .doc format which is weird because I know MS like taking organisations to court over stuff like this ...

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when. Python Enhancement Proposal ...

Zip files are incredibly useful for sharing data over email, cloud storage and on a USB stick. They let you group files together, be they documents, images or audio files. And as zip files typically ...

A caption file is a completely separate file from a video file. Caption files can be made in a wide variety of formats, and you can upload a caption file to accompany a video in order to create closed ...