Windows Media Player
Windows Media Player 11 in Windows Vista
Developed by	Microsoft
Latest release	11.0.6001 / February 4, 2008
OS	Microsoft Windows
Genre	Media player
License	Proprietary software
Website	Microsoft Windows Media

Windows Media Player (WMP) is a digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Editions of Windows Media Player were also released for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Solaris but development of these has since been discontinued. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 572 pixel Image in higher resolution (1032 × 738 pixel, file size: 233 KB, MIME type: image/png) A screenshot of Windows Media Player 11 in Windows Vista. ... Windows Media Player (WMP) is a proprietary software digital media player and media library application developed by Microsoft that is used for playing audio, video and images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system, as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. ... Windows Vista is a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, Tablet PCs, and media centers. ... For other uses, see Software developer (disambiguation). ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Code complete redirects here. ... is the 35th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ... An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... Windows redirects here. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Proprietary software is software with restrictions on copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Audio & Visual Media Digital media (as opposed to analog media) usually refers to electronic media that work on digital codes. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Sound reproduction is the electrical or mechanical re-creation and/or amplification of sound, often as music. ... For other uses, see Video (disambiguation). ... Look up image in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The tower of a personal computer. ... Windows redirects here. ... An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... An O2 Pocket PC phone A Pocket PC, abbreviated P/PC or PPC, is a hardware specification for a handheld-sized computer (Personal digital assistant) that runs the Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system. ... Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API. Devices which run Windows Mobile include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, Portable Media Centers, and on-board computers for certain automobiles. ... This article relates to both the original Classic Mac OS as well as Mac OS X, Apples more recent operating system. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. ...

In addition to being a media player, Windows Media Player includes the ability to rip music from and copy music to compact discs, build Audio CDs in recordable discs and synchronize content with a digital audio player (MP3 player) or other mobile devices, and enables users to purchase or rent music from a number of online music stores. For the process of sawing wood along the grain, see Rip saw. ... CD redirects here. ... CD re-directs here; see Cd for other meanings of CD. Image of a compact disc (pencil included for scale) A compact disc (or CD) is an optical disc used to store digital data, originally developed for storing digital audio. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Synchronization is coordination with respect to time. ... Apple iPod nano (third-generation), a best-selling flash-based player An embedded hard drive-based player (Creative ZEN Vision:M) An MP3 CD player (Philips Expanium) More commonly referred to as an MP3 player, a digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device that stores, organizes and... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... The tone or style of this article or section may not be appropriate for Wikipedia. ...

Windows Media Player replaced an earlier piece of software simply called Media Player, adding features beyond simple video or audio playback. This article is about media players in general. ...

The default file formats are Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media Audio (WMA), and Advanced Systems Format (ASF), and supports its own XML based playlist format called Windows Playlist (WPL). The first generation Zune software (but not the current second generation software) which actually is a modified version of Windows Media Player, additionally supports AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) audio, MPEG-4 and H.264 video formats out-of-the-box. The player is also able to utilize a digital rights management service in the form of Windows Media DRM. Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of video codec technologies developed by Microsoft. ... Windows Media Audio (WMA) is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. ... Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsofts proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... WPL (Windows Media Player Playlist) is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. ... This article is about the digital media brand. ... Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. ... MPEG-4 is a standard used primarily to compress audio and visual (AV) digital data. ... H.264 is a high compression digital video codec standard written by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as the product of a collective partnership effort known as the Joint Video Team (JVT). ... Digital rights management (DRM) is an umbrella term that refers to access control technologies used by publishers and copyright holders to limit usage of digital media or devices. ... Windows Media DRM is a Digital Rights Management service for the Windows Media platform. ...

History

ActiveMovie was the immediate ancestor of Windows Media Player

Windows has had a media player since version 3.0 with MultiMedia Extensions (Media Player). The original Media Player application used MCI to handle media files. In 1996 Microsoft released ActiveMovie, a new way of dealing with media files and streaming media (which the original Media Player couldn't handle). A wrapper was provided for users in the form of the ActiveMovie Control, allowing users to play media files on their computer. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Windows 3. ... This article is about media players in general. ... This article is about media players in general. ... The Media Control Interface is short and sweet, in an aging with wrinkles API for controlling multimedia images connected to a tree. ... ActiveMovie is a streaming media technology developed by Microsoft and is now known as DirectShow. ... In computer programming, the adapter design pattern (sometimes referred to as the wrapper pattern) adapts one interface for a class into one that a client expects. ...

ActiveMovie morphed into DirectShow and a new Media Player was created, known internally as Media Player 2. This player was an evolution from the ActiveMovie Control, providing a richer and more intuitive user interface. Media Player 2, like its predecessor, was also a wrapper - this time around DirectShow. Version 5.2 was the first version of this new Media Player, with version 6.x becoming widespread. Logo of the DirectX Media SDK - the first time DirectShow was distributed under its current name. ...

Windows Media Player 10 for Windows XP

Version 6.4 was the final version of Media Player 2, by now known as Windows Media Player. Version 6.4 was included with Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, but was dropped in Windows Vista. Windows Media Player 10 for Windows XP. Screenshot made by jlin. ... Windows Media Player 10 for Windows XP. Screenshot made by jlin. ...

After Windows 2000 was released there was another large revamp with version 7, with a new user interface, visualisations and increased functionality. WMP7 came with the WMA and WMV codecs. With version 7.1, it was being called as a part of Windows Media Series, a collection of tools and codecs to create, serve and play media. Windows Media Audio (WMA) is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. ... Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of video codec technologies developed by Microsoft. ...

Features

Windows Media Player running in mini mode showing a visualization.

• Allows the user to connect and share data with a Playstation 3, Xbox 360 or Xbox
• Playback of audio, video and pictures, along with fast forward, reverse, seek and time compression and dilation.
• Supports local playback, streaming playback and progressive downloads.
• Support for any media codec and container format using specific DirectX filters.
• Full media management, via the integrated media library, which offers cataloguing and searching of media. Media can be arranged according to album, artist, genre, date et al.
• Video Smoothing which upscales frame-rate by interpolating added frames, in effect giving a smoother playback on low-framerate videos.
• Includes 10-band graphic equalizer and SRS WOW audio post-processing system. Windows Media Player can also have attached plug-ins which process the output audio or video data.

Windows Media Player running in mini mode in Windows Vista and Windows XP.

• Features a taskbar-mounted Mini mode in which the most common media control buttons are presented as a toolbar on the Windows taskbar. Flyout windows can display media information, visualization or the video being played back.
• Can use video overlays or VMR surfaces, if the video card supports them. XP versions use VMR7 by default, but can also be made to use the more advanced VMR7 Mixing Mode by enabling the "Use high quality mode" option in Advanced Performance settings.
• Version 11 introduced improved support for DirectX accelerated decoding of WMV video (DXVA decoding)
• Features integrated CD-burning support for audio as well as data CDs. Data CDs can have any of the media formats supported by the player. While burning Data CDs, the media can, optionally, be transcoded into WMA format.
• Audio CDs can be ripped as WMA or WMA 10 Pro at 48, 64, 96, 128, 160 and 192 kbit/s, WMA lossless (470 to 940 kbit/s), WMA variable bitrate (from 40-75 kbit/s up to 240-355 kbit/s), MP3 at 128, 192, 256 and 320 kbit/s, or WAV uncompressed. 24 bit high-resolution CDs are also supported, if capable audio hardware is present.
• Features synchronization support with many hand-held devices. Media can be optionally transcoded to a format better suited for the target device, automatically, when synchronizing.
• Includes intrinsic support for Windows Media codecs which support multichannel audio at up to 24-bit 192 kHz resolution.
• Supports subtitles and closed-captioning, if present in the media.
• Features "Synchronized Lyrics", by which different lines of lyrics can be time-stamped, so that they display only at those times.
• Windows Explorer shell integration to add files and playlist to the Now Playing and other playlists can be controlled from the Windows Explorer shell itself, via right-click menu.
• Provides an embeddedable ActiveX control for Internet Explorer so that developers can play Windows Media on web pages.

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Other versions

Microsoft has also released versions of Windows Media Player for other platforms including Windows Mobile, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Palm-size PC, Handheld PC, and Solaris. Of these, only the Pocket PC / Windows Mobile edition continues to be actively developed and supported by Microsoft. Version 1 of the Zune software was also based on Windows Media Player, later versions are not. Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API. Devices which run Windows Mobile include Pocket PCs, Smartphones, Portable Media Centers, and on-board computers for certain automobiles. ... This article relates to both the original Classic Mac OS as well as Mac OS X, Apples more recent operating system. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Palm-Size PC A Palm-Size PCs start menu The Palm-Size PC was Microsofts first attempt at a computer conforming to an in your hand profile (or, as commonly referred to, a PDA). ... Sharp Mobilon PRO PV5000A, one of the many Handheld PCs produced. ... Solaris is a computer operating system developed by Sun Microsystems. ... This article is about the digital media brand. ...

Windows Mobile

Windows Media Player 10 Mobile on Windows Mobile 6 Professional.

Windows Media Player for Pocket PC was first announced on January 6, 2000, and has been revised on a schedule roughly similar to that of the Windows version.^[1] Currently known as "Media Player 10 Mobile", this edition (released in October 2004) closely resembles the capabilities of the Windows version of WMP 10, including playlist capabilities, a media library, album art, WMA Lossless playback, support for DRM-protected media, video playback at 640x480 with stereo sound, and the same Energy Blue interface aesthetics also seen in recent versions of Windows XP Media Center Edition. It also supports synchronization with the desktop version of WMP 10, and additionally supports synchronizing and transcoding of recorded television shows from Media Center. Media Player 10 Mobile is not available as a download from Microsoft; distribution is done solely through OEM partners, and is typically included on devices based on Windows Mobile. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... is the 6th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ... Energy Blue desktop, featuring the new bliss wallpaper, the royale theme and the Media Player skin. ... A typical Windows XP MCE 2005 Menu Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) is a version of Windows XP designed to serve as a home-entertainment hub. ...

The latest version of Windows Mobile (6.0) includes a copy of Windows Media Player 10 Mobile but with a similar (but not quite identical) theme as Windows Media Player 11.

Mac OS X

Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X

Version 9 was the final version of Windows Media Player to be released for Mac OS X before development was canceled by Microsoft. WMP for Mac OS X received widespread criticism from Mac users due to poor performance and features. Developed by the Windows Media team at Microsoft instead of the Macintosh Business Unit and released in 2003, on release the application lacked many basic features that were found in other media players such as Apple's iTunes and QuickTime.^{[citation needed]} It also lacked support for many media formats that version 9 of the Windows counterpart supported on release 10 months earlier. A screenshot of version 9 of Windows Media Player for Mac OS X. Screenshot captured on January 8 2005 by AlistairMcMillan. ... A screenshot of version 9 of Windows Media Player for Mac OS X. Screenshot captured on January 8 2005 by AlistairMcMillan. ... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Macintosh Business Unit (informally known as Mac BU or MacBU) is a division of Microsoft, formed in 1997, that produces software for the Apple Macintosh platform. ... This article is about the iTunes application. ... QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ...

The Mac version supported only Windows Media encoded media (up to version 9) enclosed in the ASF format, lacking support for all other formats such as MP4, MPEG, and Microsoft's own AVI format. On the user interface front, it did not prevent screensavers from running during playback, it did not support file drag-and-drop, nor did it support playlists. While Windows Media Player 9 had added support for some files that use the WMV9 codec (also known as the WMV3 codec), in other aspects it was seen as having degraded in features from previous versions. Windows Media is a multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. ... Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsofts proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. ... The is a working group of ISO/IEC charged with the development of video and audio encoding standards. ... Look up Avi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A screensaver is a computer program originally designed to conserve the image quality of computer displays by blanking the screen or filling them with moving images or patterns when the computers are not in use. ... Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of video codec technologies developed by Microsoft. ...

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Release history

See also: Media player

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European Commission case

In March 2004, the European Commission in the European Union Microsoft antitrust case fined Microsoft €497 million and ordered the company to provide a version of Windows without Windows Media Player, claiming Microsoft "broke European Union competition law by leveraging its near monopoly in the market for PC operating systems onto the markets for work group server operating systems and for media players". The company has made available a compliant version of its flagship operating system under the negotiated name "Windows XP N", though the product has not been very successful.^[4] Windows Vista is also available in "N" editions. Still, with these editions it is possible to either install Windows Media Player (XP/Vista) or the Media Restore Pack through Windows Update (Vista) to gain the media player functionality back. Berlaymont, the Commissions seat The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive branch of the European Union. ... The European Union Microsoft antitrust case is a case brought by the greedy European Union (EU) against Microsoft for alleged antitrust abuse and because of rampant anti-Americanism. ... This article is about the economic term. ... In information technology, a server is an application or device that performs services for connected clients as part of a client-server architecture. ... Windows Update version 5 through Netscape Browser 8. ...

See also

• List of media players
• Comparison of media players
• Media Transfer Protocol
• Windows Media Encoder
• Windows Media Services

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References

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External links

• Microsoft Windows Media home page
• A Little Windows Media Player History
• Microsoft ports Windows Media to Linux (10 April 2003, vnunet.com)
• Error Messages in Windows Media Player 10
• Error Messages in Windows Media Player 9
• Flip4Mac- official codec provider for Mac OS X users for WMP 9
• Audio and Video Codecs for Windows Media Player
• Windows Media Player plug-ins and skins
• List of default codecs in Windows XP SP2 and WMP 9 and 10
• Windows Media Player Updates
• MSDN How To Embed Windows Media Player in a HTML Web Page (For Webmasters)
• Creating A Windows Media Custom Experience (For Webmasters)
• Older versions of Windows Media Player