RIFF

File Format
Name	RIFF
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Metaformats RIFF
LoCFDD	fdd000025
Released	1991

RIFF, standing for Resource Interchange File Format, is a wrapper or container format, originally developed by Microsoft and IBM. Formats based on the RIFF container include the widely used WAV (audio) and AVI (video) formats.

Identification

RIFF files begin with the ASCII characters "RIFF".

Software

• RIFFPad

Links

• Microsoft RIFF File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
• RIFF document issued jointly by IBM and Microsoft August 1991
• Resource Interchange File Format : Wikipedia