- Extension
- .xwma
- .nut
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Video
- Developer
- Microsoft
- The nut file type was created by the FFmpeg project.
- Description
- xWMA is a container format for compressed audio data developed by Microsoft, based on Windows Media Audio (WMA) compression but with a simplified header structure optimized for streaming and playback via the XAudio2 API. It is primarily used in Xbox and Windows game development to store sound effects and music efficiently.
- 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/x-xwma
- application/x-nut
