Windows Media Player 11 supported formats; alternative codecs for Windows Media Player 11.
What formats does Windows Media Player play?
- CD audio - .cda
- Intel Indeo video technology - .ivf
- Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) - .aif, .aifc, and .aiff
- Windows Media audio and video files - asf, .asx, .wax, .wm, .wma, .wmd, .wmv, .wvx, .wmp, and .wmx
- Windows audio and video files - .avi and .wav
- Windows Media Player skins - .wmz and .wms
- Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) - .mpeg, .mpg, .m1v, .mp2, .mpa, .mpe, .mp2v*, and .mpv2
- Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) - .mid, .midi, and .rmi
- AU (UNIX) - .au and .snd
- MP3 - .mp3 and .m3u
- DVD video - .vob
For the Windows Media Player 11 supports the above formats, so many codecs can support the Windows Media Player 11. Here will list some of Windows Media Player 11 codecs that you may find of some use.
QuickTime Alternative for Windows Media Player 11
QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt, .3gp and other extensions) without having to install the official QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages.
FFDShow for Windows Media Player 11
FFdshow is a set of DirectShow filters and VFW codec for video compression, decompression and processing and audio compression and processing.
FFDShow uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project or for video decompression (it can use xvid.dll installed with xvid codec too), postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.
AC3 Filter for Windows Media Player 11
AC3Filter is high quality freeware DirectShow audio decoder and processor filter used to decode audio tracks in movies (DVD, MPEG4 and others). It has a priority on wide functionality and convenient settings.
Broadcam Video Streamer for Windows Media Player 11
BroadCam video streaming software is designed to broadcast live video using a webcam or pre-recorded video files as well as audio.BroadCam Video Streamer handles the audio and video stream compression, player format negotiation, bandwidth adjustment and serving over the Internet allowing for both broadband and dial-up connections.
CoreVorbis for Windows Media Player 11
CoreVorbis is a DirectShow-Decoder for the Vorbis audio codec. It allows you to play files containing Vorbis-audio in many players, for example Windows Media Player 11, Media Player Classic or The Core Media Player.
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