File Formats Supported in IDL
Image File Formats
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Format |
Description |
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BMP |
Windows Bitmap format |
| GIF
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Graphics Interchange Format
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JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group format
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JPEG 2000 |
JPEG 2000 format |
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MPEG 1 & 2 |
Moving Picture Experts Group format
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NRIF |
NCAR Raster Interchange Format
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PICT |
Mac version 2 PICT files (bitmap only)
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PNG |
Portable Network Graphics format
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PGM |
Portable Gray Map Format
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PPM |
Portable Pixmap Format |
| SRF
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Sun Raster File Format
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TIFF |
8-bit or 24-bit Tagged Image File format
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X11 Bitmap |
X11 Bitmap format used for reading bitmaps for IDL widget button labels
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XWD |
Windows Dump Format
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Scientific Data Formats
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Format |
Description |
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CDF |
Common Data Format v 3.4.1
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DICOM |
Digital Imaging and COmmunications in Medicine
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GeoTIFF |
TIFF file with tags containing geographic data
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GRIB/GRIB2 |
GRIddedBinary Format |
| HDF
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Hierarchical Data Format version 4.2 r8
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HDF5 |
Hierarchical Data Format version 5-1.8.4
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HDF-EOS |
Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System version 2.18
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KML/KMZ |
Google Earth™ mapping service format and compressed format
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MrSID |
Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database format
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NetCDF |
Network Common Data Format, all formats: classic, 64-bit offset, and NetCDF4
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OPeNDAP |
OPeNDAP via NetCDF |
Video Formats
The combination of video file format and codec used for video streaming determines whether IDL can read a particular video file.
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Data Type |
Read |
Write |
File to Select |
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Adobe Flash (FLV)
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• |
• |
.f4v, .flv |
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Adobe Shockwave Flash (SWF)
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• |
• |
.swf |
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Animated GIF |
• |
• |
.gif |
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Apple QuickTime |
• |
• |
.mov |
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Audio Video Interleaved (AVI)
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• |
• |
.avi |
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DV (Linux only) |
• |
• |
.dv |
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Google WebM Matroska
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• |
• |
.webm |
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Matroska Video |
• |
• |
.mkv |
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Motion JPEG |
• |
• |
.mjpeg, .mjpg |
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Motion JPEG2000 |
• |
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.mj2 |
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MPEG-1 Part 2 |
• |
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.mpeg, .mpg, .mp1, .m2v
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MPEG-2 Transport Stream
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• |
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.ts |
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MPEG-2 Part 2 |
• |
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.mpeg, .mpg, .mp2, .mpg2, .mpeg2, .mpv, .m2v
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MPEG-4 Part 12 / 3GPP / 3GPP2
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.3gp, .3g2 |
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MPEG-4 Part 14 |
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.h264, .mp4, .mpeg4, .mpg4, .mp4
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RAW |
• |
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.raw |
Video Codec Formats
Codecs are used to encode data streams for transmission, storage, or encryption; and to decode the data streams for video playback.
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Name |
Description |
Read |
Write |
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BMP |
Bitmap (Windows only)
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•
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FLV |
Adobe Flash Video:
FLV
Sorenson Spark
Sorenson H.263
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• |
• |
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GIF |
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• |
• |
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H.263 |
H.263-1996
H.263+
H.263-1998
H.263 Version 2
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• |
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H.264 |
MPEG-4 Part 10:
H.264
AVC
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• |
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HEVC |
High Efficiency Video Coding
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• |
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MJPEG |
Motion JPEG |
• |
• |
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MPEG1 Video |
MPEG-1:
H.261
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• |
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MPEG2 Video |
MPEG-2:
H.222
H.262
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• |
• |
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MPEG4 |
MPEG-4 Part 2 |
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• |
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MSMPEG4V1 |
MPEG-4 Part 2 Microsoft Variant Version 1
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• |
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MSMPEG4V2 |
MPEG-4 Part 2 Microsoft Variant Version 2
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• |
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MSMPEG4 |
MPEG-4 Part 2 Microsoft Variant Version 3
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• |
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RAW |
Raw video (uncompressed)
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• |
• |
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VC-1 |
Microsoft codec, also known as SMPTE 421M
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• |
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VP8 |
Google codec |
• |
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Other Data Formats
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Format |
Description |
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ASCII |
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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BIL, BIP, BSQ |
ArcGIS Raster |
| Binary
|
Digital data encoded as a sequence of bits
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CSV |
Comma-Separated Value |
| EPS
|
Encapsulated PostScript |
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ESRI Shapefile |
Stores non-topological geometry and attribute information
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IMG |
ENVI image |
| PDF
|
Portable Document Format
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PS |
PostScript |
| SYLK
|
Symbolic Link Format |
| VRML
|
Virtual Reality Modeling Language
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WAV |
Microsoft Waveform Format
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WAVE |
Wavefront Advanced Data Visualizer Format
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XDR |
eXternal Data Representation
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XML |
eXtensible Markup Language |