One of the most popular video formats used with computers and found on the web is WMV. Microsoft originally designed WMV (Windows Media Video) to stream video. WMV obviously plays with all current Windows Media Players and other media players such as VLC, Winamp, and DivX. Pre Requirement DVD/RW Optical Drive A DVD optical drive …
PDF (Portable Document Format) is the extension for a document file that allows users to interact with the file’s pages and content. It is the most commonly used file for eBooks and manuals because the viewer has the option of jumping to a specific page or chapter. Likewise, PDF files give the author the ability …
Developed by a Russian software developer Eugene Roshal RAR stands for “Roshal Archive”, and represents a proprietary archive file format with support for data compression, error recovery and file spanning (archiving a single file within multiple packages). You can recognize a RAR archive by a .rar file extension. If the archive comes in multiple files …
The WMA (Windows Media Audio) file format is a proprietary file format created by the Microsoft Corporation for the storage and playback of audio files. The WMA format is part of the greater Windows Media framework and actually consists of four variants to include WMA, WMA Pro, WMA Lossless, and WMA Voice. The most common …
Lotus 123 was a spreadsheet software that the Lotus Development Corporation, now a subsidiary of IBM, created. It was popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Lotus 123 was originally developed for DOS, but eventually became available for the Windows Operating System. However, Microsoft Excel quickly rivaled and outperformed Lotus 123, causing Lotus 123 to lose …
For many, MP3 is the perfect digital format. Music in this format sounds similar to CD music quality. MP3 files are much smaller than the standard CD WAV file and using MP3 is free. It seems the only drawback of using MP3s is the fact that most music is stored on media that are not …
MP4 has emerged as the most commonly accepted multimedia standard on the Internet. It boasts the same audio and video quality found on DVDs and is rated at a higher quality than the MP2 and MP3 formats. The format is also optimized to stream on the web, however, a number of audio playback devices continue …
The FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an open source file format designed for the storage and playback of audio content. Unfortunately, the format is not supported on a number of music playback devices. The WAV (Waveform Audio File Format) is designed by Microsoft and IBM for both audio playback in uncompressed form. A common …
In order to burn an AVI file to a DVD, the file must often be converted to a proper DVD format. This can be done with the use of file converters and/or DVD burning software. File converters are often able to convert many different formats into any of the other formats that they support. Some …
The Kindle is a portable electronic device from Amazon which allows users to read and access e-books when away from a computer. Kindles provide readers with a means of storing and reading thousands of books anywhere they go by organizing them as AZW files that can be displayed on the Kindle screen and accessed via …