Storage and Access of Digital Resources

Name

File formats

Information

Windows Media Player (WMP)

 Wikipea (2014)

The default file formats

Windows Media Video (WMV),

Windows Media Audio (WMA), and

Advanced Systems Format (ASF)

Windows Media Player is a media player and media library application developed by Microsoft. It is used for playing video, audio and viewing images. This media player is available for Microsoft Windows operating system.

VLC

VideoLAN organization (2014)

Plays most codecs with no codec packs needed:

MPEG-2, DivX, H.264, MKV, WebM, WMV, MP3...

VLC media player (commonly known as VLC) is a portable, free and open-source, cross-platform media player and streaming media server written by the VideoLAN project.

It plays almost every type of file formats , including DVD-Video, video CD and streaming protocols

VLC is available on all platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, etc.

RealPlayer

Wikipedia

RealPlayer is cross-platform adware created by RealNetworks

RealPlayer is available for Windows,Linux, Unix etc.

It also available for Mobile devices such Blackberry, Apple devices etc.

It supports many video and audio file formats such as MP3, WMA, MP4 etc.

Adobe Reader,

Pdf

Adobe Reader is a free software that used to view, print and annotate PDF files. Its available for several desktop and mobile platforms

Adobe Acrobat,

pdf

 Adobe Acrobat is the commercial software developed by Adobe Systems. With Acrobat, you can do the following:-

• Create and edit PDF files
• Merging and combining digital files into a single PDF
• Converting PDFs into other formats (e.g MS Office format) and back again
• Create PDF Forms for data retrieving and analysis
• Storage and sharing of files online
• Automatic reviewing and approvals process.

NitroPDF

pdf

Nitro is a commercial software that allows you to create, edit,sing,secure share and collaborate PDF and other digital files.

It also allows you you to convert PDF files into MS office application format and back again.