What is the difference between .ras and .heif?
- Extension
- .ras
- .heif
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Sun
- Apple
- Description
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- Based on HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding), the HEIF format is an image file container with one or multiple images and is the default image format for Apple Live Photos. It replaced the JPEG format as it's smaller in size and has lossless compression ensuring high-quality photos.
- MIME Type
- image/x-cmu-raster
- image/heif
- Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia
- .heif on Wikipedia