| Industry | Windows | File | Image | Data | Image | |
| Standard | Support | Extension | Sequence | Compress | Time | |
| (s) | Stamps | |||||
| AVI/DIB | Yes | Yes | .avi | Yes | No | 1 |
|
AVI/DIB OpenDML |
Yes(a) | Yes | .avi | Yes | No | 1 |
| AVI/MJPG | Yes | Yes | .avi | Yes | Lossy | 1 |
|
AVI/MJPG OpenDML |
Yes(a) | Yes | .avi | Yes | Lossy | 1 |
| BigTIFF | ?? (c) | No | .btf | Yes | Lossless | Per |
| options | image | |||||
| (f) | ||||||
| BMP | Yes | Yes | .bmp | No | No | No |
| JPEG/JFIF | Yes | Yes | .jpg | No | Lossy | 1 (d) |
| FITS | Yes | No | .fts | Yes | No | 1. |
| Per | ||||||
| image(d) | ||||||
| Portable | Yes | No | .pgm | Yes | No | 1 (d) |
| Map | .pbm | |||||
| .ppm | ||||||
| TIFF | Yes | Yes(b) | .tif | Yes | Lossless | Per |
| options | Image | |||||
| (f) | ||||||
| X/Y ASCII | Raw Data | No | .asc | Yes | No | No (e) |
| X/Y Binary | Raw Data | No | .bin | Yes | No | No |
| Max Seq | Max | Max | Pixel | |
| File Size | Image | Image | Formats | |
| (g) | Dimension | Size | ||
| AVI/DIB | 1, 2 or | 2 Gi -1 | 4 MiB -1 | Grey-1/4/8 |
| 4 GiB (h) | Byte | RGB-24 | ||
| AVI/DIB | 32 TiB | 2 Gi -1 | 4 GiB -1 | Grey-1/4/8 |
| OpenDML | RGB-24 | |||
| AVI/MJPG | 1, 2 or | 2 Gi -1 | 4 GiB -1 | Grey-8 |
| 4 GiB (h) | (compressed) | RGB-24 | ||
| AVI/MJPG | 32 TiB | 2 Gi -1 | 4 GiB -1 | Grey-8 |
| OpenDML | (compressed) | RGB-24 | ||
| BigTIFF | 16 EiB | 4 Gi -1 | None | All |
| BMP | N/A | 32 Ki -1 | 4 GiB -1 | Grey-1/4/8 |
| RGB-24 | ||||
| JPEG/JFIF | N/A | 64 Ki -1 | None | Grey-8 |
| RGB-24 | ||||
| FITS | None | None | None | All |
| Portable | None | None | None | Grey |
| Map | RGB | |||
| TIFF | 4 GiB | 4 Gi -1 | None | All |
| X/Y ASCII | None | N/A | None | N/A |
| X/Y Binary | None | N/A | None | N/A |
Note: This summary of various file formats reflects those options and/or features supported by XCAP®.
Note (a): AVI OpenDML, also known as AVIX or AVI V2.0, has not been formalized as industry standard, but is supported by Windows and most other systems and is a defacto standard
Note (b): Windows supports TIFF Grey-8 and RGB-24 formats; support for other bit depths and color spaces is unknown/variable. Windows support for image sequences within TIFF is unknown.
Note (c): BigTIFF is popular amongst GIS Domain and other applications using large cameras and datasets. See www.loc.gov/preservation/formats/ .
Note (d): Time stamps in JPEG/JFIF and in Portable Map are by virtue of using "comment" fields. FITS supports a single time stamp; per-image time stamps is by virtue of using "comment" fields.
Note (e): Image time stamps can be written to a separate ASCII file.
Note (f): TIFF options for no compression, industry standard lossless compression, and for EPIX® private lossless compression.
Note (g): Maximum file size is also, of course, also limited by the host computer operating system and by the HDD/SSD hardware.
Note (h): Maximum file size depends upon which Microsoft API, or third party libraries, are used to create or read the AVI file. XCAP supports 4 GiByte.
Note (s): Windows support without installing optional codecs and/or other third party applications. Linux is too mutable, and imaging handled by add-on libraries and applications, for a concise statement as to which formats are supported.