TAMU-CC Repository

• AIFF (PCM) (.aif, .aiff)
• WAV (PCM) (.wav)
• Broadcast WAV (PCM) (.wav, .bwav)

For music:

• 24 bit, 96 kHz or better

For speech:

• 16 bit, 44.1 kHz or better

For music:

• AIFF (PCM) (.aif, .aiff)
• WAV (PCM) (.wav)
• Free Lossless Audio Codec (.flac)
• Apple Lossless (.m4a)

For speech:

• Advance Audio Coding (.mp4, .m4a, *.aac)
• MP3 (MPEG-1/2, Layer 3) (.mp3)
• MP2 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer II) (.mp2)
• 128 kbps (mono),
• 256 kbps (stereo) or better, 44.1 kHz,
• variable bit rate settings off if possible.
• AIFF or WAV preferable.

Audio (MIDI): 

• Standard General MIDI (.mid, .midi), original or Level 2, Universal SysEx commands only, instruments well documented

• Advance Audio Coding (.mp4, .m4a, .aac) for music
• MP3 (MPEG-1/2, Layer 3) (.mp3) for music
• MP2 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer II) (.mp2) for music
• Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) AIFC (compressed) (.aifc) - NeXT SND (.snd)
• RealNetworks 'Real Audio' (.ra, .rm, *.ram)
• Windows Media Audio (.wma)
• Protected AAC (.m4p) - WAV (compressed) (.wav)

Audio (MIDI): 

• Any other MIDI file not listed here

•  Uncompiled computer program source code (*.c, *.cpp, *.java, *.js, *.jsp, *.php, *.pl, *.py, etc.)

•  Compiled / Executable files (EXE, *.class, COM, DLL, BIN, DRV, OVL, SYS, PIF)

• Geo-Referenced TIFF (.tiff), ESRI Shapefile (.shp, .shx, .dbf), Keyhole Markup Language (.kml)

Raster: 

• Full color @ 600dpi or higher:
• JPEG2000 Lossless (.jp2)
• TIFF 24-bit, uncompressed (.tif, .tiff)

Vector: 

• Open Document Graphics (.odg)

Raster: 

• JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg)
• JPEG2000 lossy compressed (.jp2)
• PNG (.png)
• TIFF lossy compressed (.tif, .tiff)

Vector: 

• Scalable vector graphics (.svg)

Raster: 

• GIF (.gif)
• Macintosh Graphics (.pict)
• Photoshop document (.psd)
• All other image formats not listed here

Vector: 

• Illustrator document (.ai)
• Photoshop document (.psd)
• All other image formats not listed here

• Interactive
• Open Document Presentation (.odp)
• Static (images only)
• PDF/A Animated - See video guidelines

• PDF other than PDF/A (.pdf)
• PowerPoint XML (.pptx)

• PowerPoint (.ppt)
• Keynote (.key)
• HTML (.htm, .html)

• Open Document Spreadsheet (.ods)

• Excel XML (.xlsx)
• Comma separated value CSV (.csv)
• Tab-delimited text file (.txt)

• Excel (.xls)
• Numbers (.numbers)

• UTF-8 Unicode text (.txt)
• Open Document Text (.odt)
• PDF/A
• XML (includes XSD/XSL/XHTML, etc.; with included or accessible schema)

• Word XML (.docx)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)
• PDF other than PDF/A (.pdf)
• Cascading Style Sheets (*.css)
• DTD (*.dtd)
• Plain text (ISO 8859-1 encoding)
• HTML (include a DOCTYPE declaration)
• SGML (*.sgml)
• Open Office (*.sxw/*.odt)

• Word (.doc)
• HTML (.htm, .html)
• Pages (.pages)
• All other text formats not listed here

• -AVI (uncompressed, motion JPEG) (.avi)
• QuickTime Movie (uncompressed, motion JPEG) (.mov)

Recommendation: Maintain original resolution of video and audio

• MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (.avi, .mpg, .mpeg, .mov)
• MPEG-4 ASP (.avi, .mkv, .mp4,)
• MPEG-4 H.264 (.avi, .mkv, .mp4, .mov,)
• Ogg Theora (.ogg)

Standard Definition recommendations:
720x486 pixels, 2.5Mbits/second for MPEG-4; 5Mbit/second for MPEG-2. Audio 448kbit/sec, 16 bit, 44.1kHz.

High Definition recommendations:
1920x1080 pixels, 8 to 15 Mbit/s. Audio 16 bit, 44.1kHz

• 3GP (.3gp, .mp4)
• Flash Video (.flv, .f4v)
• MPEG-4 ASP (Divx, Xvid) (.avi)
• MPEG-4 H.264 (DRM protected) (.m4v, .mp4)
• RealNetworks 'Real Video' (.rv)
• Windows Media Video (.wmv) 

• X3D (.x3d)

• VRML (.wrl, .vrml)
• U3D (Universal 3D file format)
• STEP (ISO 10303) (.stp .step)
• IGES (NBSIR 80- 1978/ASME Y14.26M) (.igs, .iges) for basic geometry only