What is the difference between .wmv and .ras?
- Extension
- .wmv
- .ras
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Sun
- Description
- A WMV file is a video file based on the Microsoft Advanced Systems Format (ASF) container format and compressed with Windows Media compression. It contains video encoded with one of Microsoft's Windows Media Video (WMV) proprietary codecs and is similar to an .ASF file.
- 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.
- MIME Type
- video/x-ms-wmv
- image/x-cmu-raster
- Sample
- sample.wmv
- Wikipedia
- .wmv on Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia