Plug-ins
This allows browsers to view movies created with the Flash application.
What is Adobe Flash Player?
This allows Web authors to include multimedia effects or Active Content on their site.
What are objects?
A scaled down version of an application; designed to view and print files.
What is a Viewer?
Audio file format used by UNIX servers, the majority of Web servers. Most Web browsers can read this type of file.
What is .au? -AU
Internet standard for graphics; An open source graphical image file format created to replace GIF's.
What is a .png? -Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
This Microsoft software development tool is used to write and run Internet applications.
What is Silverlight?
This programming language is used primarily to create operating systems and applications.
What is C?
A general file format that can be created and read on any computer, regardless of the operating system.
What is Portable Document Format (PDF)?
Popular compression standard for audio files; retains most of the sound quality of the source.
What is .mp3? -MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3
Portable text file format created by Microsoft that allows image insertion and text formatting; and almost universal format.
What is .rft? -Rich Text Format (RFT)
This plug-in was created for running videos and audio files; it also has file formats for movies and VR (Virtual Reality).
What is QuickTime?
This is a superset of the C language that uses object-oriented programming.
What is C++?
What is .avi? - Audio Video Interleave (AVI)
High-quality audio and video file compression format.
What is .mp4? MPEG-4 - Moving Picture Experts Group.
A graphical image file format commonly used for photographs.
What is .jpg or .jpeg? -Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
This is a standards-based plug-in that plays streaming audio and video; it is also installed with the Windows operating system.
What is Windows Media Player?
This object-oriented language concentrates on distributed objects over a network and is often used when data needs to be shared across the network.
What is Java?
High-quality audio format developed by Apple Computer.
What is .aiff? - Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF)
A free, open-source alternative to the MP3 compression format for audio files; creates smaller, faster downloading files and compatible with HTML5.
What is .ogg? - Ogg Forbis
An open-source image file format that provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the Web.
What is a .webp? -WebP
An application associated with a specific platform that is to provide efficient integration of multimedia formats with the browser and computer
What is a plug-in?
This is Microsoft's object-oriented programming language; it is Microsoft's answer to Java.
What is C#?
Standard file format for QuickTime movies and the Apple OS X native movies.
What is .mov? or .qt for QuickTime
Video file format version that is also royalty-free and can be distributed with out licensing fees; also compatible with HTML5.
What is .ogg?
File format used for importing and exporting graphics; a standard in the publishing industry.
What is .eps? -Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)