File formats: W
Every format whose extension starts with W.
Formats
| Format | Name | About | Main software | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
.WASM | WebAssembly module | Portable bytecode for browsers and runtimes, in numbered sections. | Google Chrome | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WAV | Waveform Audio File Format | The Windows audio file: RIFF chunks holding the sample format and PCM samples. | Audacity | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WEBLOC | macOS website location | A Mac shortcut to a web page: a property list with one URL key. | Finder | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WEBM | WebM video | Open web video: Matroska restricted to VP8, VP9 or AV1 with Vorbis or Opus. | VLC media player | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WEBP | WebP image | Google’s web image format: lossy, lossless or animated, in RIFF chunks. | Google Chrome | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WGSL | WebGPU Shading Language source | Shader source for WebGPU in browsers and native WebGPU libraries. | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen | |
.WHL | Python wheel | Built Python packages: a ZIP of the files and a .dist-info folder. | pip | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WK1 | Lotus 1-2-3 worksheet | Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2 worksheet: a run of records, one per cell. | LibreOffice Calc | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WMA | Windows Media Audio | Microsoft’s audio codecs in an ASF container of GUID-tagged objects. | Windows Media Player | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WMF | Windows Metafile | A recording of 16-bit Windows drawing calls, replayed to draw the picture. | LibreOffice | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WMV | Windows Media Video | Microsoft’s Windows Media video, in GUID-tagged ASF objects. | VLC media player | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WOFF | Web Open Font Format | A web font: TrueType or OpenType tables, each compressed with zlib. | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen | |
.WOFF2 | Web Open Font Format 2 | A web font: TrueType or OpenType tables compressed together with Brotli. | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen | |
.WPD | WordPerfect document | WordPerfect’s document: a WPC header, then text mixed with formatting codes. | WordPerfect Office | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WPL | Windows Media Player playlist | A Windows Media Player playlist: SMIL-style XML of media elements. | Windows Media Player | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WRL | VRML world | The first web 3D standard: a text tree of nodes, still used to export coloured meshes. | Castle Model Viewer | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |
.WV | WavPack | Open lossless and hybrid compression: wvpk blocks, plus an optional .wvc file. | foobar2000 | DocumentedViewerEditorOpen |