- Extension
- .usm
- .pbm
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- CRI Middleware
- Wolfgang Hoschek
- Description
- CRI USM Video is a proprietary video container format developed by CRI Middleware for use in video games. It stores compressed audio and video streams, often using CRI's own codecs, and is commonly used for cutscenes and in-game video playback. It is prevalent in many console and PC games developed in Japan.
- 1-bit black and white image; formatted in text format; basic raster image format in which each pixel is represented by a byte that contains a 1 or 0; 1 represents black and 0 represents white pixels.
- MIME Type
- video/usm
- image/x-portable-bitmap