Sample MIME Files
The WWW is a multi media environment. It supports a number of data types for text, images, movies, and sound. Unfortunately, you must configure your browser to be able to read some of these types. The only standard
that seem to be readable out of the box is gif. Here are some more sample types to help you test your browser:
- A tiff image from junior lab.
- A jpeg image of a famous physicist.
- Click Me or Click Me or Click Me Sounds from space.
- An mpeg movie of a supercomputer simulation.
- An mpeg movie of last summer's major news event.
- An mpeg movie generated by Mathematica.
- A Quicktime movie of an air track experiment.
- A Quicktime movie of white light fringes on a Michelson Interferometer.
- A postscript file captured from a printer.
HELPERS: External Viewers for MIME Files
The following tables should be helpful for idenitifying the many external viewers available for use on your system.
Microsoft Windows
| MIME/File Type |
Extension |
External Viewer |
|---|
| postscript file |
.ps |
Ghostview |
| video/mpeg |
.mpg |
Mpegplay |
| video/QuickTime |
.mov |
MoviePlayer |
| image/jpeg |
.jpg |
Lview Pro |
| image/tiff |
.tif |
Lview Pro |
| image/gif |
.gif |
Lview Pro |
| audio/wav |
.wav |
Windows Mplayer.exe |
| audio/au |
.au |
WPlany |
|
Apple Macintosh
| MIME/File Type |
Extension |
External Viewer |
|---|
| video/mpeg |
.mpg |
Sparkle 2.3.1 |
| video/QuickTime |
.mov |
Sparkle 2.3.1 |
| image/jpeg |
.jpg |
GIF Converter 2.3.7 |
| image/tiff |
.tif |
GIF Converter 2.3.7 |
| image/gif |
.gif |
GIF Converter 2.3.7 |
| audio/au |
.au |
Sound Machine 2.1 |
| audio/snd |
.snd |
Sound Machine 2.1 |
