What is the difference between .ra and .vms?
- Extension
- .ra
- .vms
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- VoidMail
- 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.
- Used in Germany to compress speech audio for voice mail. A self-describing variant of cvsd (Continuously Variable Slope Delta modulation).
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- audio/x-vms-compressed-void-mail
- Sample
- sample.vms
- Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia