Category
Video File Signatures
Container and codec formats for video — MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WebM and more — and the magic bytes that distinguish them.
35 formats in this category
.3g2
Safe
3G2
66 74 79 70 33 67 32 61
.3gp
Safe
3GP
66 74 79 70 33 67 65 36
.asf
Safe
Microsoft Windows Media Audio/Video File
30 26 B2 75
.avi
Safe
Resource Interchange File Format --Windows Audio VideoInterleave file
41 56 49 20
.drc
Safe
DRC
4F 67 67 53 00 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 42 42 43 44
.fli
Safe
FLIC Animation file
00 11 AF
.flv
Safe
Flash video file
46 4C 56
.jng
Safe
JNG
8B 4A 4E 47
.m1v
Safe
M1V
00 00 01 B3
.m2p
Safe
M2P
00 00 01 BA
.m2v
Safe
M2V
00 00 01 B3
.m4v
Safe
MPEG-4 video|QuickTime file
66 74 79 70 4D 34 56 20
.mj2
Safe
MJ2
00 00 00 0C 6A 50 20 20 0D 0A 87 0A
.mjp2
Safe
MJP2
00 00 00 0C 6A 50 20 20 0D 0A 87 0A
.mk3d
Safe
MK3D
1A 45 DF A3
.mka
Safe
MKA
1A 45 DF A3
.mks
Safe
MKS
1A 45 DF A3
.mkv
Safe
Matroska stream file
1A 45 DF A3
.mov
Safe
QuickTime movie file
6D 6F 6F 76 00
.movie
Safe
MOVIE
4D 4F 56 49 00
.mp4
Safe
ISO Base Media file
66 74 79 70 69 73 6F 6D
.mp4v
Safe
MP4V
66 74 79 70 6D 70 34 31
.mpe
Safe
MPE
00 00 01 B3
.mpeg
Safe
MPEG video file
00 00 01 B3
.mpg
Safe
DVD Video Movie File
00 00 01 BA
.mpg4
Safe
MPG4
66 74 79 70 6D 70 34 31
.mxf
Safe
Material Exchange Formatfile
06 0E 2B 34 02 05 01 01 0D 01 02 01 01 02
.ogm
Safe
OGM
4F 67 67 53 00 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 2E 76 69 64 65 6F
.ogv
Safe
Ogg Vorbis Codec compressed Multimedia file
4F 67 67 53
.qt
Safe
QT
6D 6F 6F 76 00
.rm
Safe
RealMedia streaming media file
2E 52 4D 46
.rmvb
Safe
RealMedia streaming media file
2E 52 4D 46
.vob
Safe
DVD Video Movie File
00 00 01 BA
.webm
Safe
WebM video file
1A 45 DF A3
.wmv
Safe
Microsoft Windows Media Audio/Video File
30 26 B2 75 8E 66 CF 11 A6 D9 00 AA 00 62 CE 6C