What is the difference between .rm and .vips?
- Name
- RealMedia File
- VIPS Image
- Extension
- .rm
- .vips
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- RealNetworks
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- Description
- An RM file is a multimedia file used by RealPlayer, an audio and video playback and streaming program. It contains audio or video data or a link to a streaming media file, which is played back as it is downloaded. RM files are commonly used for streaming content over the Internet such as video and Internet radio.
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-pn-realaudio
- image/vnd.vips
- Sample
- sample.rm
- Wikipedia
- .rm on Wikipedia
- .vips on Wikipedia