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The Microsoft Windows Media Player (WMP) control acts as a universal player for rendering most standard multimedia formats. This includes stored and live content in network audio and video formats. Codecs supported by this version of the WMP control include the following:
Audio Codecs
- Microsoft Pulse Code Modulation (PCM)
- Microsoft GSM 6.10 Audio (GSM 610)
- Microsoft CCITT G.711 A-Law and u-Law
- Microsoft Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (MS ADPCM)
- Interactive Multimedia Association Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (IMA ADPCM)
- Microsoft MPEG-1 Layer 1; Microsoft MPEG-1 Layer 2
- Windows Media Audio (WMA) v2, v7
- VoiceAge ACELP.net
- Fraunhofer MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3)
Video codecs
- Radius Cinepak (Cinepak)
- Microsoft MPEG-1 (MS MPEG-1)
- Microsoft RLE8
- Microsoft MPEG-4 v2, v3, ISO
- Windows Media Video (WMV) v7
In addition, the following content formats (and their associated filename extensions) are supported:
Audio streaming formats
- Moving Picture Experts Group standard 1, Layer 1,2, 3 (.mpa, .mp2, .mp3)
- Windows Media Audio (.wma)
Video streaming formats
- Moving Picture Experts Group standard 1 (.mpg, .mpeg, .mpv, .mpe)
- Advanced Streaming Format (.asf)
- Windows Media Video Format (.wmv)
- Advanced Stream Redirector (.asx)
- Windows Media Audio Redirector (.wax)
- Windows Media Video Redirector (.wvx)
- Windows Media Redirector (.wmx)
Non-streaming (local playback) audio formats
- Waveform Audio (.wav)
- Sound File (.snd)
- UNIX audio (.au)
- Audio Interchange File Format (.aif, .aiff, .aifc)
Non-streaming (local playback) video formats
- Audio-Video Interleaved (.avi)
- Apple QuickTime (.qt, .mov), version 2 and lower.
Last updated on Tuesday, May 18, 2004