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MIME types

Mime-types was originally defined in RFC 1341. After that a series of improvment has been made. Some of this can be found in RFC 1521 and RFC 1522.

There are also lists with other types. This is ourcollection of video subtypes.

Type Subtype Ext Description
video mpeg mpg, mpeg, mpe MPEG compressed video. [RFC1521, Borenstein]
video vnd.vivo [Wolfe]
video quicktime qt, mov QuickTime video. [Paul Lindner]
video x-msvideo avi Microsoft Video.
video x-sgi-movie movie

Type	Subtype	Ext	Description
video	mpeg	mpg, mpeg, mpe	MPEG compressed video. [RFC1521, Borenstein]
video	vnd.vivo		[Wolfe]
video	quicktime	qt, mov	QuickTime video. [Paul Lindner]
video	x-msvideo	avi	Microsoft Video.
video	x-sgi-movie	movie

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Last updated: Thursday January 17 2002