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