What is the difference between .mpeg-2 and .ras?
- Extension
- .mpeg-2
- .ras
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Motion Pictures Expert Group
- Sun
- Description
- Video file encoded with the MPEG-2 codec, which is mainly used for over-the-air, satellite, and cable digital TV signals and DVD video; uses lossy compression for audio and video to significantly reduce the size of the video data; not as efficient as the H.264 format.
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- MIME Type
- video/mpeg
- image/x-cmu-raster
- Wikipedia
- .mpeg-2 on Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia