(en) Microsoft & IBM, « Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0 » [PDF], (consulté le ) : « The Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), a tagged file structure, is a general specification upon which many file formats can be defined », p. 8
(en) Microsoft & IBM, « Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0 » [PDF], (consulté le ) : « This document describes the programming interfaces and data specifications for multimedia that are common to both OS/2 and Windows environments. », p. 2
(en) Microsoft & IBM, « Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0 » [PDF], (consulté le ) : « A FOURCC is represented as a sequence of one to four ASCII alphanumeric characters, padded on the right with blank characters (ASCII character value 32) as required, with no embedded blanks. », p. 11
(en) Microsoft & IBM, « Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0 » [PDF], (consulté le ) : « A 32-bit unsigned value identifying the size of ckData. This size value does not include the size of the ckID or ckSize fields or the pad byte at the end of ckData. », p. 11
(en) Microsoft & IBM, « Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0 » [PDF], (consulté le ) : « Binary data of fixed or variable size. The start of ckData is word-aligned with respect to the start of the RIFF file. If the chunk size is an odd number of bytes, a pad byte with value zero is written after ckData. Word aligning improves access speed (for chunks resident in memory) and maintains compatibility with EA IFF. The ckSize value does not include the pad byte. », p. 11
