What is the difference between .ra and .wv?
- Extension
- .ra
- .wv
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- WavPack
- 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.
- Audio file compressed using WavPack Hybrid Lossless Compression; supports both lossy and lossless compression, which produces high-quality compressed files; the compression ratio is typically between 30% and 70%.
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- audio/x-wavpack
- Sample
- sample.wv
- Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia
- .wv on Wikipedia