Folder: Media Types

vibrations in the air stored as numbers.

Type of file that contains binary code.

Another term for sound.

Music is a specific kind of audio, which means it's recorded sound data that can be reproduced by the computer.

What is a Game in a Computer? A computer game is an interactive computer program made for entertainment. There are many, many types of computer games. Some games are single-player and you can play alone. Others are multiplayer. Others are massively multiplayer. We even have zero-player games that play by themselves. Some games use realistic […]

What is a Video? A video is a word that has many meanings in a computer. In general, when we say "a video" we're talking about an image that moves, changes, and has sounds coming out of it, like a movie, but there are also videos that don't have sound, and videos with images that […]

What is an Image? An image can be two different things in a computer: anything that you can see that can be displayed on a screen, including photos, graphics, drawings, icons, etc., as well as the image files that contain the data necessary to display said images—computer image data is generally composed of pixels (in […]