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Windows Media
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Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the digital jukebox and media player that comes with every version of Windows. Windows Media Encoder is software for converting live performances and existing audio and video files to Windows Media formats. Windows Media Server is a Windows server component for streaming audio and video.

Windows Media Player can also be downloaded for the Macintosh, although typically not the latest version. See Windows Media Player, Windows Media formats, Windows Media Rights Manager and QuickTime.

   Native Microsoft Multimedia Formats

   Type   Purpose
   WAV    Audio
   AVI    Video
   ASF    Audio or video using non-Windows codecs
   WMA    Audio using Windows codec
   WMV    Video using Windows codec



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