Wndows Media Player is capable of playing a wide variety of different video formats. Examples include .wmv and .avi. A comprehensive listing of possible formats is available at the official Microsoft website.
Windows Media Player is available by a free download from the Microsoft Windows website. The current version available is the Windows Media Player 12.
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Windows Media Player will by default rip CD's into a wma format. This can be changed to other formats. wma is a proprietary format held by Microsoft.
No. Windows Media Player is not the only audio/media player for Windows OS. There are other popular media player too. Some of them are VLC, Real Player, QuickPlay, etc.
Windows Media can only play video with file name extensions (formats) listed below:.asf, .wma, .wmv, .wm.MOV files are not compatible with Windows Media Player (or Windows Movie Maker either). You will need to convert the MOV video to one of the formats listed before you can play it in Windows Media Player.Free video converters are available online. Simply Google: free video converters and download one. Follow the conversion instructions making sure the output source formatis one compatible with Windows Media Player.
Aside from Windows Media Player, you can also try Mplayer which supports a wide variety of media formats.
Windows Media Player for Mac was last updated in 2010, and is no longer available for download and installation. Instead, one can use Windows Media Components for QuickTime by Flip4Mac which is available for download through the Microsoft website in place of Windows Media Player for Mac.
Windows Media Player will by default rip CD's into a wma format. This can be changed to other formats. wma is a proprietary format held by Microsoft.
Install ffdshow it should help with some formats.
Windows Media Player or iTunes can help rip CD to MP3, WAV and other audio formats.
Windows media player 11 and i want Windows Media Player back!
Windows 7 has the Windows Media player.