What is the difference between .m2v and .ra?
- Name
- MPEG-2 Video
- Real Audio
- Extension
- .m2v
- .ra
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Audio
- Developer
- Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
- RealNetworks
- Description
- Video only (without audio) encoded using MPEG-2 compression
- 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
- Sample
- sample.m2v
- Wikipedia
- .m2v on Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia