What is the difference between .ra and .m2v?
- Extension
- .ra
- .m2v
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Video
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG)
- 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.
- Video only (without audio) encoded using MPEG-2 compression
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- video/mpeg
- Sample
- sample.m2v