- Extension
- .ra
- .mxf
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Video
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- SMPTE
- 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.
- Multimedia format used by digital audio and video programs; contains captured audio and video data as well as metadata that describes the media stored in the file; designed by Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) as a standard container for audio and video data; can be converted into other formats, such as .AVI or .MOV.
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- application/mxf
