- Extension
- .mat
- .mpeg2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Data
- Video
- Developer
- The MathWorks
- Motion Pictures Expert Group
- Description
- A MAT-file holds the variables saved from a MATLAB session: numeric arrays such as matrices and images, text, cell arrays and structs. Files saved with -v7.3 are HDF5 files behind a MATLAB header. Unity and Unreal material files use the .mat extension too, but they are a different format.
- Video file encoded with the MPEG-2 codec, which is mainly used for over-the-air, satellite, and cable digital TV signals and DVD video; uses lossy compression for audio and video to significantly reduce the size of the video data; not as efficient as the H.264 format.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- video/mpeg