What is Multimedia? Multimedia Formats

What is Multimedia?
Multimedia comes in many different formats. 
It can be almost anything you can hear or see.

Examples: Pictures, music, sound, videos, records, films, animations, and more.

Web pages often contains multimedia elements of different types and formats.

In this chapter you will learn about the different multimedia formats.

Multimedia Formats
Multimedia elements (like sounds or videos) are stored in media files.

The most common way to discover the type of a file, is to look at the file extension. 

When a browser sees the file extension .htm or .html, it will treat the file as an HTML file. 

The .xml extension indicates an XML file, and the .css extension indicates a style sheet file. 

Pictures are recognized by extensions like .gif, .png and .jpg.

Multimedia files also have their own formats and different extensions like: .swf, .wav, .mp3, .mp4, .mpg, .wmv, and .avi.