WMA
WMA is the abbreviation of Windows Media Audio. The lossy Microsoft-developed audio format is similar in compression to mp3 format, but optimized for Windows Media Player. The compression method filters out certain frequency ranges that are not perceptible to the ear, so that the file size can be greatly reduced. A document in WMA format […]
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The format Post Script (PS), which was developed in the early 1980s, is one of the standard formats of the American company Adobe. Adobe is the company behind the Acrobat Reader and programs like Photoshop and with the ps format, the foundations for the now more popular format pdf were laid early. PS documents are […]
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The .avi file format is a container format developed by Microsoft for audio and video files. The abbreviation .avi stands for Audio Video Interleave, which means something like "interlacing of audio and video data", and is a description of the technical background. Since .avi files can contain different codecs (a codec is a kind of […]
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MID files are music files and, in contrast to other audio formats like .mp3 or .wav, do not contain direct music but instructions on how to "create" the music. In principle, these files contain "notes for the computer". While a .mp3 file always sounds the same, for a MIDI file it is a matter of […]
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A rtf file is a text file that has been saved in the Rich Text format. Unlike a txt (Plain Text) file it also contains formatting code like italics, bold or underline, different font styles and sizes, text formatting info, and it may include images and embedded objects (output from other applications, e.g. tables). The […]
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MPEG-1 or mpeg-2 Audio Layer III, mostly known as mp3 or MP3, designates a format for coding digital audio data. MP3 still ranks among the most popular formats for storing audio data. In the early 80s, the German Fraunhofer Institut developed MP3 as a lossy format compared to Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA): Compression rate […]
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WAV files are used to store audio signals – such as music or voice recordings. WAV files are uncompressed, so they offer a perfect quality at the cost of a really huge file size. They usually contain PCM-signals based on Microsoft’s Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF). Before the advent of mp3, WAV was often used […]
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Open Document Spreadsheet (ODS) files use a standardised XML-based file format to make it easier to share documents using open-source software. Column, row and cell calculations are included in the file data as well as text and graphics in what is also known as OASIS format, referring to a computing organisation that was founded to […]
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For a long time, Flash Video was the dominant standard on the Internet and streaming platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo opted for the flv format (Flash Video). Smaller platforms still use Flash Videos today, whereas the largest streamers have long switched to HTML5-based videos. Flash is a crucial security vulnerability in browsers, smartphones often […]
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