File Types

Universal Scene Description: a Pixar framework for interchange of 3D scene data. It supports layered composition, variants, and non-destructive editing of complex 3D scenes.

A zero-compression zip archive of a USD scene by Apple and Pixar. The primary format for AR content on Apple platforms.

Source code for V (Vlang), a statically typed compiled language for easy, fast, and maintainable software. Aims to combine the simplicity of Go with C-level performance.

Source code file for Visual Basic .NET, an object-oriented language on the .NET platform with English-like syntax.

Visual Basic Scripting Edition: a lightweight scripting language by Microsoft for Windows automation and legacy web scripting (ASP Classic).

vCard: a standard format for electronic business cards containing contact information (name, phone, email, address, photo).

An open-source library and format for storing volumetric data (smoke, fire, clouds). Developed by DreamWorks, standard in VFX production.

VirtualBox Disk Image: the native disk image format for Oracle VirtualBox virtual machines.

Video Game Music: a logging format for various video game sound chips (Sega Genesis, Master System, Game Gear). Records exact chip register writes.

Virtual Hard Disk: a disk image format by Microsoft for Hyper-V and Azure virtual machines.

VHSIC Hardware Description Language: an IEEE standard HDL for describing digital and mixed-signal systems used in FPGA and ASIC design.

Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk v2: the successor to VHD supporting up to 64 TB, improved resilience against power failures, and better performance.

Virtual Machine Disk: the disk image format used by VMware virtual machines with snapshot and thin provisioning support.

DVD Video Object: the container format used on DVD-Video discs. It contains MPEG-2 video, audio (AC3, DTS, MPEG, LPCM), subtitles, and navigation data.

An open video codec by Google/On2 Technologies. Used as the video codec in WebM containers, predecessor to VP9.

An open, royalty-free video codec by Google. It offers quality comparable to HEVC and is widely used on YouTube and in WebM containers.

Virtual Reality Modeling Language: an early standard for representing 3D interactive vector graphics on the web. Predecessor to X3D.

Visualization Toolkit: a file format for scientific visualization data including structured/unstructured grids, polygonal data, and scalar/vector fields.

Web Video Text Tracks: a W3C standard subtitle format for HTML5 video extending SRT with styling, positioning, and karaoke effects.

Configuration file for Vagrant, a tool for building and managing virtual development environments. Written in Ruby DSL.