| MIME
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension) extensions have the ability to send mixed media in
the Internet Mail. This is a mail systems protocol can handle audio, video, and binary
files. MIME represents a large number of file types. |
| Types - Subtypes |
Explanation |
| PostScript |
Files that are Adobe
PostScript files |
| WordPerfect 5.1 |
Files that are WordPerfect
5.1 application program ready |
| ZIP |
Files that are compressed
and could be read only when uncompressed. These files could be uncompressed using WINZIP
or PLUNZIP. |
| PDF |
Files that are Adobe
portable document format files. |
| Mathematica |
Files that are Mathematica
application program format or ready |
| QuickTime |
Files that are QuickTime
format. These are video files. |
| MS Word |
Files that are Microsoft
Word document |
| JPEG |
An image file that is in
JPEG formatting. |
| TIFF |
An image file that is in
TIFF formatting. |
| MPEG |
An image file that is in
MPEG formatting. |
| GIF |
An image file that is in GIF
formatting. |
| There are many
types of sound, graphic, and video formatting available. These formatting use many
different extensions that can be run by different type of application programs. The verity
of formatting available in the market gives us choices from which we can create many HTML
files. This table has a list of common Multimedia extensions and formatting. |
| Extension |
Format |
Application |
| WAV |
Microsoft Waveform - Sound
format |
Windows |
| SND |
8khz mulaw - Sound format |
Workstation |
| AU |
8khz mulaw - Sound format |
Workstation |
| SBI |
Sound Blaster - sound format |
Sound Blaster Card |
| AVI |
Audio Video Interleaved -
Motion video format |
Microsoft's Video |
| DVI |
Digital Video Interactive -
Motion video format |
?? |
| MOV |
QuickTime - Motion video
format |
Macintosh and Windows |
| FLI |
Flick - Motion video format |
Auto desk Animation |
| BMP |
Windows Bitmap - Still-Video |
Native Windows OS/2 |
| PCD |
Kodak Photo CD - Still-Video |
Kodak's CD-ROM photo |
| PDF |
Portable Document -
Still-Video |
Acrobat software |
