What is the difference between .swf and .webm?
- Extension
- .swf
- .webm
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Video
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Description
- An SWF file is an animation created with Adobe Flash that can be played by Flash Player or with a web browser that has the Flash plugin installed. It may contain text, vector and raster graphics, and interactive content written in ActionScript.
- A WEBM file is a compressed video saved in the WebM format, an open, high-quality video standard. It stores video compressed using VP8 technology and audio compressed using Ogg Vorbis compression. WEBM files are commonly used for delivering online videos using the HTML5 <video> tag.
- MIME Type
- application/x-shockwave-flash
- video/webm
- Sample
- sample.swf
- sample.webm
- Wikipedia
- .swf on Wikipedia
- .webm on Wikipedia