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title: "MediaType"
---
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A standardized media type (RFC2046, formerly known as MIME types), encoded as a string.

The complete reference of officially registered media types is maintained by the IANA and can be
consulted at <https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml>.

## Rerun datatype
[`Utf8`](../datatypes/utf8.md)


## Arrow datatype
```
Utf8
```

## API reference links
 * 🌊 [C++ API docs for `MediaType`](https://ref.rerun.io/docs/cpp/stable/structrerun_1_1components_1_1MediaType.html)
 * 🐍 [Python API docs for `MediaType`](https://ref.rerun.io/docs/python/stable/common/components#rerun.components.MediaType)
 * 🦀 [Rust API docs for `MediaType`](https://docs.rs/rerun/latest/rerun/components/struct.MediaType.html)


## Used by

* [`Asset3D`](../archetypes/asset3d.md)
* [`AssetVideo`](../archetypes/asset_video.md)
* [`EncodedDepthImage`](../archetypes/encoded_depth_image.md)
* [`EncodedImage`](../archetypes/encoded_image.md)
* [`TextDocument`](../archetypes/text_document.md)
