What is the difference between .vqf and .ra?
- Extension
- .vqf
- .ra
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Yamaha
- RealNetworks
- Description
- A VQF file, standing for TwinVQ (Vector Quantized) Audio File, is a compressed audio format developed by NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) in the late 1990s. It was designed to offer higher compression rates compared to the more commonly used MP3 format, aiming to produce smaller file sizes while retaining a similar audio quality.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-twinvq
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
- Sample
- sample.vqf
- Wikipedia
- .vqf on Wikipedia
- .ra on Wikipedia