Overview of file formats. Next Previous Contents 6. Overview of file formats.
File formats are a separate issue from device characteristics.
6.1 Self-describing file formats. Self-describing file formats generally define a family of data encodings, where a header field indicates the particular encoding variant used. Strictly speaking, channel interleaving is also part of the encoding, although so far I have seen little variation in this area. Here's an overview of popular file formats. I know nothing for sure about the origin of HCOM files.