What is the difference between .asf and .ra?
- Extension
- .asf
- .ra
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Audio
- Developer
- Microsoft
- RealNetworks
- Description
- An ASF file is a media file stored in the Advanced Systems Format (ASF), a proprietary video and audio container format. It contains audio and video data and optional metadata, such as title, author, and copyright bibliographic data. ASF files are developed by Microsoft primarily for streaming media.
- RealPlayer created RA for audio streaming. It makes use of various audio codecs from those that deliver high-fidelity sounds to those that record low bitrate audio data. Radio stations mainly used it for online streaming, but current formats have overthrown it.
- MIME Type
- video/x-ms-asf
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- Sample
- sample.asf
- Wikipedia
- .asf on Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia