] The .bmp file format (sometimes also saved as .dib) is
] the standard for a Windows 3.0 or later DIB(device
] independent bitmap) file. It may use compression (though
] I never came across a compressed .bmp-file) and is (by
] itself) not capable of storing animation. However, you
] can animate a bitmap using different methods but you have
] to write the code which performs the animation. There are
] different ways to compress a .bmp-file, but I won't
] explain them here because they are so rarely used. The
] image data itself can either contain pointers to entries
] in a color table or literal RGB values (this is explained
] later).

The .bmp file format