File Types - A Practical Guide to Video and Audio Compression - page 690

Table I-2 MIME Types for Popular Audio and Video Formats (Continued)

Player Helper File type MIME type

Video for Windows (AVI) Browser

.vfw video/msvideo

Video for Windows (AVI) Browser

.vfw video/x-msvideo

WAVE audio Browser

.wav audio/wav

WAVE audio Browser

.wav audio/x-wav

Windows Media Browser

.wax audio/x-ms-wax

Windows Media Browser

.wax audio/x-ms-wma

Windows Media Browser

.wm video/x-ms-wm

Windows Media Browser

.wma audio/x-ms-wma

Windows Media Player

.wmd application/x-ms-wmd

Windows Media Browser

.wmv video/x-ms-wmv

Windows Media Browser

.wmx video/x-ms-wmx

Windows Media Player

.wmz application/x-ms-wmz

Windows Media Browser

.wvx video/x-ms-wmv

Windows Media Browser

.wvx video/x-ms-wvx

Digital Rights Management Plugin Undefined application/x-drm

Notes (caveats and health warnings about these values):

You should check that the players you are targeting are compatible with the MIME
types you define in your server.

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This list is not authoritative but merely a collated snapshot of values seen “in the
wild.”

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There may be meaningful MIME type and file extension combinations that are not
listed here.

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This information is collated from a variety of sources on the Internet and also from
some working server config files.

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The Helper column indicates common default behavior.

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Users can override these settings in their browsers if they want to.

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When configuring servers, a comma-separated list of file types is associated with a
single entry for each MIME type.

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I.3 File Sizes

For a system you are building to handle compression, you will need provide enough space
to store the source movie (in whatever format it is provided to you) and the output files