What is the difference between .ra and .hcom?
- Extension
- .ra
- .hcom
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- Nero AG
- Description
- 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.
- Macintosh HCOM files. These are Mac FSSD files with Huffman compression.
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- audio/x-hcom
- Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia
- .hcom on Wikipedia