MPG
MPG is a file format used to compress movies. It was developed by Leonardo Chiariglione and Hiroshi Yasuda in the 80s to achieve better compression of films. The forerunner was MPEG-1, which achieved only a low output quality with a limited data rate of only up to 1.5 Mbit / s. Successors like MPEG-4 offer […]
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MPG is a file format used to compress movies. It was developed by Leonardo Chiariglione and Hiroshi Yasuda in the 80s to achieve better compression of films. The forerunner was MPEG-1, which achieved only a low output quality with a limited data rate of only up to 1.5 Mbit / s. Successors like MPEG-4 offer […]
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WEBM is a file format for playing videos and music, similar to other video files like wmv and mp4. Specifically, webm is a container format for audio and video files with the file extension .webm. WEBM was specially developed for use on the Internet and is based on the video codes VP8 and VP9 introduced […]
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Worth knowing about the aac format AAC is the abbreviation of Advanced Audio Coding and can be defined as a lossy compression method of audio files. Qualitatively, it is superior to the mp3 format and is also considered its successor. The AAC format developed by mpeg supports a multitude of bit rates and is also […]
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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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Aif files (also known as aif) are audio files – they contain music or language. The abbreviation AIF stands for A udio I nterchange F ile F ormat and is the standard music format on Apple's Mac OS. The ubiquity of Mac OS in the professional environment, make .aiff files practically the standard in recording […]
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MP2 files include, as well as mp3 files, music or speech – so this is an audio file format. The abbreviation mp2 stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2. While MP2 in the general environment has been almost completely replaced by the newer MP3 format, it is even more common in some areas (for example, broadcast, […]
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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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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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