File Formats

mrViewer supports a number of image formats for reading and writing. Here's a brief summary of them:

Extension	Name	Read	Write	Comments
.avi	AVI	Yes	No	All Channels, all codecs
.bmp	Microsoft's Bitmap	Yes	Yes
.cin	Cineon	Yes	No
.ct	mental ray floating point color images	Yes	No
.dds	Microsoft Direct Draw Surface	Yes	No
.dpx	DPX	Yes	No
.exr	ILM OpenEXR	Yes	Yes	All Channels and Layers displayed
.gif	GIF	Yes	Yes
.iff	Maya IFF	Yes	No
.jpeg	JPEG	Yes	Yes
.map	mental ray textures	Yes	No	Only non-tiled maps supported
.mi	mental ray network render file stubs	Yes	No	Floating point connections
.mov	Quicktime Movies	Yes	No
.mpeg	Motion Pictures Group	Yes	No
.nt	mental ray floating point normal images	Yes	No
.ogg	OGG	Yes	No
.pdf	Adobe Postscript	Yes	No	Single page, converted to a bitmap
.pic	Softimage pic	Yes	No
.png	PNG	Yes	Yes
.psd	Photoshop	Yes	Yes	All Layers displayed, paths and vector graphics lost
.reel	mrViewer's reel (EDL) files	Yes	Yes
.rpf	Autodesk 3DS Rich Picture Format	Yes	No	Some layers supported
.shmap	mental ray floating point shadow maps	Yes	No
.st	mental ray floating point scalar images	Yes	No
.tga	Targa	Yes	Yes
.tif	TIFF	Yes	Yes	All Layers displayed
.vob	DVD Video	Yes	No
.wmv	Microsoft WMV	Yes	No	WMV9 supported, but slow
.z	Renderman Shadow Maps	Yes	No
.zt	mental ray floating point z-depth images	Yes	No