- Extension
- .ra
- .mpeg-2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Video
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- Motion Pictures Expert Group
- 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 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.
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- video/mpeg
