What is the difference between .aac and .wmv?
- Extension
- .aac
- .wmv
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Video
- Developer
- Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute, Dolby Labs, Sony and Nokia
- Microsoft
- Description
- Compressed audio file similar to an .MP3 file, but offers several performance improvements; examples include a higher coding efficiency for both stationary and transient signals, a simpler filterbank, and better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz; maintains quality nearly indistinguishable from the original audio source.
- A WMV file is a video file based on the Microsoft Advanced Systems Format (ASF) container format and compressed with Windows Media compression. It contains video encoded with one of Microsoft's Windows Media Video (WMV) proprietary codecs and is similar to an .ASF file.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-aac
- video/x-ms-wmv
- Sample
- sample.aac
- sample.wmv
- Wikipedia
- .aac on Wikipedia
- .wmv on Wikipedia