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A full-featured graphics viewer for Windows IrfanView is a fast and simple image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, TGA, and more.

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Supported File Formats

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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, FITS, FLI/FLC², FPX, FSH, G3, GIF, HDP/WDP, HDR, ICL, ICO, IFF/LBM, IMG, JP2, JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, Mac PICT², 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, SND¹, TGA, TIF/TIFF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAL, WAV, WBMP, WMF, WMA, WMV, XBM, XPM, (DNG, EEF, NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, PEF, SRF, X3F).


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
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
PostScript formats
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

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
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

WBMP
WAP Bitmap format
YES³

WMF
Windows Metafile format
YES

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.

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