Multimedia Types

System administrators can define the Multimedia Types available in the Content Manager to define the allowed Multimedia Type for Multimedia Components.

Users can create Multimedia Components by uploading binary files to the Content Manager, or by identifying an external multimedia Component.

The following table outlines the binary file types supported by Content Manager:

NameMIME typePossible extensions
Adobe Flash fileapplication/x-shockwave-flashswf
Bitmap imageapplication/octet-streambmp
Cascading Style Sheetapplication/csscss
Executableapplication/octet-streamexe
GIF imageimage/gifgif
JavaScript resourceapplication/x-javascriptjs
JPEG imageimage/jpegjpg, jpeg, jpe
Microsoft Access Databaseapplication/x-msaccessmdb
Microsoft Excel Workbookapplication/ms-excelxls
MP3 music fileaudio/x-mpegmp3
MPEG videovideo/mpegmpg
PDF documentapplication/pdfpdf
Plain text documenttext/plaintxt
PNG imageimage/pngpng
Microsoft PowerPoint Presentationapplication/ms-powerpointppt
Apple QuickTime movievideo/quicktimemov, qt
RealPlayer media filervideo/vnd.rn-realmediarm, ram, ra, rv
Rich text documenttext/rtfrtf
WAV sound fileapplication/x-wavwav
Microsoft Word Documentapplication/msworddoc