What is the difference between .sid and .mpeg-2?
- Name
- MrSID Image
- MPEG-2 Video
- Extension
- .sid
- .mpeg-2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Video
- Developer
- Extensis
- Motion Pictures Expert Group
- Description
- Image created using Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) compression, which was developed by Extensis for compressing large images; commonly used to partition and store large Geographic Information Systems (GIS) images.
- Video file encoded with the MPEG-2 codec, which is mainly used for over-the-air, satellite, and cable digital TV signals and DVD video; uses lossy compression for audio and video to significantly reduce the size of the video data; not as efficient as the H.264 format.
- MIME Type
- video/mpeg
- Sample
- sample.sid
- Wikipedia
- .mpeg-2 on Wikipedia