RIFF

File Format
Name	RIFF
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics RIFF
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.

References

• RIFF document issued jointly by IBM and Microsoft August 1991
• Resource Interchange File Format : Wikipedia
• RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format), from Library of Congress resource on Sustainability of Digital Formats