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A streaming media technology for the Internet from RealNetworks. Using the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), it is designed to handle any type of media, including audio, video, MIDI, text, animation and presentations. The RealMedia Architecture (RMA) allows multiple streams to be synchronized simultaneously; for example, sending images intermixed with audio.
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| Filename extension | .rm |
|---|---|
| Internet media type | ? |
| Type code | ? |
| Uniform Type Identifier | ? |
| Developed by | RealNetworks |
| Type of format | multimedia container format |
RealMedia is a proprietary multimedia container format created by RealNetworks. Its extension is ".rm". It is typically used in conjunction with RealVideo and RealAudio and is used for streaming content over the Internet. Typically these streams are in CBR (constant bitrate), but a container for VBR (variable bitrate) streams, named RMVB (RealMedia variable bitrate), has been developed.
Support of RealMedia is available in a wide variety of multimedia players for different architectures/platforms[citation needed], including RealPlayer and the Real Alternative codec pack. The open source DAP firmware Rockbox has added support for reading RM containers as of 6 July 2009, although only certain formats used in RM files are playable.
See also
- RealPlayer
- Container format
- Comparison of container formats
- Comparison of video player software
- RealVideo codecs
- RealAudio codecs
- HelixCommunity - the free and open source software project from RealNetworks
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