What is the difference between .dat and .ra?
- Name
- VideoCD MPEG
- Real Audio
- Extension
- .dat
- .ra
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Audio
- Developer
- MPEG-1 Layer 2 Audio
- RealNetworks
- Description
- MPEG stream in a RIFF container used in VideoCDs.
- 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/mpeg
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- Wikipedia
- .dat on Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia