You may have recently noticed that devices like newer or updated iPhones and Android phones have started recording images in a format called HEIF (High Efficiency Image File) [...]

The multimedia community often uses format names very casually: “Open this TIFF” or “I’m sending you an Ogg file” or “We have some old DICOM images - we [...]

Browsers, such as Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, have native support for some data formats. Using multimedia as an example, JPG (the original JPEG) is universally supported, and MPEG-4/H.264 [...]

When JPEG2000 (common file extensions .jp2, .j2k, and .jpx)  was first introduced, the traditional JPEG format (common file extensions .jpg and .jpeg) was the predominant format for general, [...]

What if you chose a promising format and suddenly saw the message Image from https://jpegxl.info/ This happened in 2022 to Google Chrome uses, when the Chrome [...]

Even formats that superficially appear to be straightforward can contain many separate pieces of information. Let's take a look at the contents of some interesting formats. Here's [...]

You can’t always tell what's inside a file from its extension. In this post we’ll delve into the contents of JFIF/JPEG files. JPEG is often used as [...]

Formats age. A question is how and, perhaps even more importantly, when to migrate to newer formats. My Adobe PDF reader updated the other day, and I [...]

The mighty JPEG: born in 1992, it is still one of the most commonly used formats for creating photos and images. It’s also a go-to format for [...]