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‐ Windows Media 9 platform, released early 2003, is a popular proprietary digital media platform.
‐ Offers streaming delivery
‐ Offers progressive download
‐ Offers disc‐based delivery
Windows media players
There is a wide variety of different Windows Media players available for different platforms,
making compatibility a moving target. Recent versions of the player aren't always available for some
common operating systems, a condition that requires you to provide multiple versions of the content
or exclude some platforms.
‐ The most commonly deployed players are:
* Windows media Player 6.4 (Windows and Windows nt)
* Windows media Player 9 and later (Windows)
* Windows media Player 9 for mac os X (10.1 and later)
* Windows media Player mobile
* Windows media Player for Pocket PC 2002
* WMP for Pocket PC 2000
Windows media video codecs
Windows Media has a broad set of codecs available, but the latest codec is considered to be clearly
the best.
‐ These codecs include:
* Windows media Video 9 (WmV9)
* Windows media Video 8 (WmV8)
* Windows media Video 7 (WmV7)
* Microsoft mPeG‐4 version 3
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