- Extension
- .ac3
- .nut
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Video
- Developer
- Dolby Laboratories
- The nut file type was created by the FFmpeg project.
- Description
- Audio file saved in the AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio format; can include up to six channels of audio (DD 5.1 surround sound with subwoofer output); uses lossy compression and often used as the format for DVDs, cinema theaters, and game consoles.
- The nut file extension is associated with the NUT a patent-free, multimedia container format originally conceived by a few MPlayer and FFmpeg developers that were dissatisfied with the limitations of all currently available multimedia container formats such as AVI, Ogg or Matroska.
- MIME Type
- audio/ac3
- application/x-nut
