File formats: B
Every format whose extension starts with B.
Formats
| Format | Name | About | Main software | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
.BAND | GarageBand project | A GarageBand song: a macOS package of project data and recordings. | GarageBand | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BC | LLVM bitcode | LLVM compiler IR in binary form, as a packed bitstream of blocks. | LLVM | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BDF | Glyph Bitmap Distribution Format | A bitmap font in plain text: each glyph as rows of hexadecimal pixels. | FontForge | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BEAM | Erlang BEAM module | One compiled Erlang or Elixir module, in IFF-style chunks. | Erlang/OTP | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BGCODE | Binary G-code | Prusa’s compressed G-code in blocks, with metadata and thumbnails up front. | PrusaSlicer | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BIN | GGML model file | The model format of ggml and whisper.cpp from before GGUF. | whisper.cpp | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BLEND | Blender file | Blender’s saved memory, in file blocks described by the SDNA they carry. | Blender | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BMP | OS/2 bitmap array (BA) | Several OS/2 bitmaps, icons or pointers for different screens, chained in one file. | ArcaOS | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BMP | Windows bitmap (BM) | Windows bitmaps: a header, an optional palette and rows of pixels. | GIMP | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BMP | Windows and OS/2 bitmaps | Six bitmap formats share the BMP file header: BM, BA, IC, CI, PT and CP. | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen | |
.BR | Brotli compressed file | Google’s web compression, with a built-in dictionary of common text. | brotli | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BSON | Binary JSON | MongoDB’s documents: typed, length-prefixed elements in binary. | MongoDB Database Tools | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.BZ2 | Bzip2 compressed file | One file compressed with the Burrows–Wheeler transform. | 7-Zip | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |