Default Multimedia Types

The Content Manager supports a large number of industry-standard multimedia file formats.

The following table lists the Multimedia Types that the Content Manager provides by default, including the MIME type and file extension(s) for each format. An Tridion Sites system administrator can add additional Multimedia Types to the Content Manager.

NameMIME typePossible extensions
Bitmap imageimage/x-bmpbmp
Cascading style sheetsapplication/csscss
Configuration settingstext/plainini
Executableapplication/octet-streamexe
External Content Libraryapplication/externalcontentlibraryecl
Flash file (Adobe)application/x-shockwave-flashswf
GIF imageimage/gif gif
Javascriptapplication/x-javascriptjs
JPEG imageimage/jpegjpg, jpeg, jpe
JSON fileapplication/jsonjson
Microsoft Access databaseapplication/x-msaccessmdb
Microsoft Excel worksheetapplication/ms-excelxls
Microsoft PowerPoint presentationapplication/ms-powerpointppt
Microsoft Word documentapplication/msworddoc
MP3 musicaudio/x-mpegmp3
MPEG videovideo/mpegmpg
Office Open XML Document (Word document)application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.documentdocx, docm
Office Open XML Presentation (PowerPoint presentation)application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentationxlsx, xlsm
Office Open XML Workbook (Excel worksheet)application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheetpptx, pptm
PDF documentapplication/pdfpdf
Plain text filetext/plaintxt
PNG imageimage/pngpng
QuickTime movie (Apple)video/quicktimemov, qt
RealPlayer media filevideo/vnd.rn-realmediarm, ram, ra, rv
Rich texttext/rtf rtf
Scalable Vector Graphicsimage/svg+xmlsvg
Sound fileapplication/x-wavwav