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Windows Media Player

Index Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player (WMP, officially referred to as Windows Media Player Legacy to distinguish it from the new Windows Media Player introduced with Windows 11), is the first media player and media library application that Microsoft developed to play audio and video on personal computers. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 159 relations: Accessibility, ActiveMovie, ActiveX, Advanced Audio Coding, Advanced Systems Format, Advanced Video Coding, Apple Inc., Apple Lossless Audio Codec, Apple Productivity Experience Group, Audio Video Interleave, AutoPlay, AVCHD, CD Player (Windows), Classic Mac OS, Compact disc, Compact Disc Digital Audio, Comparison of video player software, Comparisons of media players, Compressed audio optical disc, Container format, Data-rate units, Digital music store, Digital rights management, Digital signal processing, Digital video, DirectShow, DirectX Media, DirectX Video Acceleration, DLNA, DVD Player (Windows), European Commission, File Explorer, FLAC, Flip4Mac, FourCC, Groove Music, Handheld PC, Hardware overlay, High Definition Compatible Digital, High Efficiency Video Coding, ID3, Incremental search, Indeo, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 4, Internet Explorer 5, Internet Explorer 6, ITunes, JPEG, Keyboard shortcut, ... Expand index (109 more) »

  2. 1991 software
  3. MacOS media players
  4. Macintosh media players
  5. Microsoft Windows multimedia technology
  6. Pocket PC software
  7. Tag editors
  8. Windows 11
  9. Windows CD ripping software
  10. Windows Mobile Standard software

Accessibility

Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.

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ActiveMovie

ActiveMovie was the immediate ancestor of Windows Media Player 6.x, and was a streaming media technology now known as DirectShow, developed by Microsoft to replace Video for Windows.

See Windows Media Player and ActiveMovie

ActiveX

ActiveX is a deprecated software framework created by Microsoft that adapts its earlier Component Object Model (COM) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) technologies for content downloaded from a network, particularly from the World Wide Web.

See Windows Media Player and ActiveX

Advanced Audio Coding

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression.

See Windows Media Player and Advanced Audio Coding

Advanced Systems Format

Advanced Systems Format (formerly Advanced Streaming Format, Active Streaming Format) is Microsoft's proprietary digital audio/digital video container format, especially meant for streaming media. Windows Media Player and Advanced Systems Format are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Advanced Video Coding

Advanced Video Coding (AVC), also referred to as H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, is a video compression standard based on block-oriented, motion-compensated coding.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Apple Lossless Audio Codec

The Apple Lossless Audio Codec (ALAC), also known as Apple Lossless, or Apple Lossless Encoder (ALE), is an audio coding format, and its reference audio codec implementation, developed by Apple Inc. for lossless data compression of digital music.

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Apple Productivity Experience Group

Apple Productivity Experience Group (known as APEX) is an operating unit of Microsoft that, as of 2009, is the largest software developer outside of Apple Inc. for the macOS and iOS operating systems.

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Audio Video Interleave

Audio Video Interleave (also Audio Video Interleaved and known by its initials and filename extension AVI, usually pronounced) is a proprietary multimedia container format and Windows standard introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows software. Windows Media Player and Audio Video Interleave are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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AutoPlay

AutoPlay, a feature introduced in Windows 98, examines newly discovered removable media and devices and, based on content such as pictures, music or video files, launches an appropriate application to play or display the content. Windows Media Player and AutoPlay are Windows components.

See Windows Media Player and AutoPlay

AVCHD

AVCHD (Advanced Video Coding High Definition) is a file-based format for the digital recording and playback of high-definition video.

See Windows Media Player and AVCHD

CD Player (Windows)

CD Player is a computer program that plays audio CDs using the computer's sound card. Windows Media Player and cD Player (Windows) are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology, tag editors and Windows media players.

See Windows Media Player and CD Player (Windows)

Classic Mac OS

Mac OS (originally System Software; retronym: Classic Mac OS) is the series of operating systems developed for the Macintosh family of personal computers by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1984 to 2001, starting with System 1 and ending with Mac OS 9.

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Compact disc

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

See Windows Media Player and Compact disc

Compact Disc Digital Audio

Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA or CD-DA), also known as Digital Audio Compact Disc or simply as Audio CD, is the standard format for audio compact discs.

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Comparison of video player software

The following comparison of video players compares general and technical information for notable software media player programs.

See Windows Media Player and Comparison of video player software

Comparisons of media players

Comparisons of media players are lists of digital media player hardware and software products that compare their features.

See Windows Media Player and Comparisons of media players

Compressed audio optical disc

A compressed audio optical disc, MP3 CD, or MP3 CD-ROM or MP3 DVD is an optical disc (usually a CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R or DVD-RW) that contains digital audio in the MP3 file format.

See Windows Media Player and Compressed audio optical disc

Container format

A container format (informally, sometimes called a wrapper) or metafile is a file format that allows multiple data streams to be embedded into a single file, usually along with metadata for identifying and further detailing those streams.

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Data-rate units

In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols (baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system.

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Digital music store

A digital music store is a business that sells digital audio files of music recordings over the Internet.

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Digital rights management

Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content.

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Digital signal processing

Digital signal processing (DSP) is the use of digital processing, such as by computers or more specialized digital signal processors, to perform a wide variety of signal processing operations.

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Digital video

Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data.

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DirectShow

DirectShow (sometimes abbreviated as DS or DShow), codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. Windows Media Player and DirectShow are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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DirectX Media

DirectX Media is a set of multimedia-related APIs for Microsoft Windows complementing DirectX.

See Windows Media Player and DirectX Media

DirectX Video Acceleration

DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) is a Microsoft API specification for the Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 platforms that allows video decoding to be hardware-accelerated.

See Windows Media Player and DirectX Video Acceleration

DLNA

Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) is a set of interoperability standards for sharing home digital media among multimedia devices.

See Windows Media Player and DLNA

DVD Player (Windows)

DVD Player is an app developed by Microsoft that plays DVD-Video on Microsoft Windows. Windows Media Player and DVD Player (Windows) are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology, Microsoft software and Windows media players.

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).

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File Explorer

File Explorer, previously known as Windows Explorer, is a file manager application and default desktop environment that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. Windows Media Player and file Explorer are Windows components.

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FLAC

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software package that includes a codec implementation.

See Windows Media Player and FLAC

Flip4Mac

Flip4Mac from Telestream, Inc. Windows Media Player and Flip4Mac are macOS media players.

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FourCC

A FourCC ("four-character code") is a sequence of four bytes (typically ASCII) used to uniquely identify data formats.

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Groove Music

Groove Music (formerly Xbox Music or Zune Music Pass) is a discontinued audio player software application included with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows 11. Windows Media Player and Groove Music are Microsoft software, Windows components and Windows media players.

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Handheld PC

A handheld personal computer (PC), typically built around either a clamshell form factor or a gaming form factor with a gamepad integrated for video games, is a mobile device that is significantly smaller than any standard personal computer (PC), but based on the same principles as PCs.

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Hardware overlay

In computing, hardware overlay, a type of video overlay, provides a method of rendering an image to a display screen with a dedicated memory buffer inside computer video hardware.

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High Definition Compatible Digital

High Definition Compatible Digital (HDCD) is a proprietary audio encode-decode process that claims to provide increased dynamic range over that of standard Compact Disc Digital Audio, while retaining backward compatibility with existing compact disc players. Windows Media Player and High Definition Compatible Digital are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology and Windows media players.

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High Efficiency Video Coding

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2, is a video compression standard designed as part of the MPEG-H project as a successor to the widely used Advanced Video Coding (AVC, H.264, or MPEG-4 Part 10).

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ID3

ID3 is a metadata container most often used in conjunction with the MP3 audio file format.

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In computing, incremental search, also known as hot search, incremental find or real-time suggestions, is a user interface interaction method to progressively search for and filter through text.

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Indeo

Indeo Video (commonly known now simply as "Indeo") is a family of audio and video formats and codecs first released in 1992, and designed for real-time video playback on desktop CPUs.

See Windows Media Player and Indeo

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, commonly abbreviated as IE or MSIE) is a retired series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft that were used in the Windows line of operating systems. Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer are Microsoft software and Windows components.

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Internet Explorer 4

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 (IE4) is the fourth, and by now, discontinued, version of the Internet Explorer graphical web browser that Microsoft unveiled in Spring of 1997, and released on September 22, 1997, primarily for Microsoft Windows, but also with versions available for the classic Mac OS, Solaris, and HP-UX and marketed as "The Web the Way You Want It". Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer 4 are Windows components.

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Internet Explorer 5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (IE5) is the fifth, and by now, discontinued, version of the Internet Explorer graphical web browser, the successor to Internet Explorer 4 and one of the main participants of the first browser war. Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer 5 are Windows components.

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Internet Explorer 6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is a web browser developed by Microsoft for Windows operating systems. Windows Media Player and Internet Explorer 6 are Windows components.

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ITunes

iTunes was a media player, media library, mobile device management utility developed by Apple. Windows Media Player and ITunes are macOS media players, Macintosh media players, tag editors, Windows CD ripping software and Windows media players.

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JPEG

JPEG (short for Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography.

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Keyboard shortcut

In computing, a keyboard shortcut also known as hotkey is a series of one or several keys to quickly invoke a software program or perform a preprogrammed action.

See Windows Media Player and Keyboard shortcut

Mac OS 8

Mac OS 8 is the eighth major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997.

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Mac OS 9

Mac OS 9 is the ninth and final major release of Apple's classic Mac OS operating system, which was succeeded by Mac OS X 10.0 in 2001, starting the Mac OS X family of operating systems.

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MacOS

macOS, originally Mac OS X, previously shortened as OS X, is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple since 2001.

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Matroska

Matroska is a project to create a container format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file.

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Media Control Interface

The Media Control Interface — MCI for short — is a high-level API developed by Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia peripherals connected to a Microsoft Windows or OS/2 computer, such as CD-ROM players and audio controllers. Windows Media Player and Media Control Interface are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Media Foundation

Media Foundation (MF) is a COM-based multimedia framework pipeline and infrastructure platform for digital media in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11. Windows Media Player and media Foundation are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Media Player Classic

Media Player Classic (MPC), Media Player Classic - Home Cinema (MPC-HC), and Media Player Classic - Black Edition (MPC-BE) are a family of free and open-source, compact, lightweight, and customizable media players for 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows. Windows Media Player and media Player Classic are Windows media players.

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Media player software

Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files.

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Media Transfer Protocol

The Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) is an extension to the Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) communications protocol that allows media files to be transferred automatically to and from portable devices. Windows Media Player and media Transfer Protocol are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Corp. v. Commission

Microsoft Corp.

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Microsoft Developer Network

Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) was the division of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as hardware developers interested in the operating system (OS), and software developers developing on the various OS platforms or using the API or scripting languages of Microsoft's applications.

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Microsoft Movies & TV

Microsoft Movies & TV (US only), or Microsoft Films & TV (Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand), previously Xbox Video and Zune Video, is a digital video service developed by Microsoft that offers full HD movies and TV shows available for rental or purchase in the Video Store as well as an app where users can watch and manage videos from their personal digital collections stored locally. Windows Media Player and Microsoft Movies & TV are Windows components and Windows media players.

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Microsoft PlaysForSure

Microsoft PlaysForSure was a certification given by Microsoft to portable devices and content services that had been tested against several hundred compatibility and performance requirements.

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Microsoft Store

The Microsoft Store (formerly known as the Windows Store) is a digital distribution platform operated by Microsoft. Windows Media Player and Microsoft Store are Windows 11 and Windows components.

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Microsoft TechNet

Microsoft TechNet was a Microsoft web portal and web service for IT professionals.

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Microsoft Video 1

Microsoft Video 1 or MS-CRAM is an early lossy video compression and decompression algorithm (codec) that was released with version 1.0 of Microsoft's Video for Windows in November 1992.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a product line of proprietary graphical operating systems developed and marketed by Microsoft.

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Moving Picture Experts Group

The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) is an alliance of working groups established jointly by ISO and IEC that sets standards for media coding, including compression coding of audio, video, graphics, and genomic data; and transmission and file formats for various applications.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is a coding format for digital audio developed largely by the Fraunhofer Society in Germany under the lead of Karlheinz Brandenburg, with support from other digital scientists in other countries.

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MP4 file format

MPEG-4 Part 14, or MP4, is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but it can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images.

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MPEG-4

MPEG-4 is a group of international standards for the compression of digital audio and visual data, multimedia systems, and file storage formats.

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MPEG-4 Part 2

MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-4 Visual (formally ISO/IEC 14496-2) is a video compression format developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

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MSN Music

MSN Music was a part of MSN's web services.

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Music streaming service

A music streaming service is a type of online streaming media service that focuses primarily on music, and sometimes other forms of digital audio content such as podcasts.

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Music visualization

Music visualization or music visualisation, a feature found in electronic music visualizers and media player software, generates animated imagery based on a piece of music.

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NetShow

NetShow was Microsoft's original framework for Internet network broadcasting, intended to compete with RealNetworks RealMedia & Vivo (acquired in 1998 by RealNetworks). Windows Media Player and NetShow are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Operating system

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.

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Oracle Solaris

Solaris is a proprietary Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems.

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Pixel aspect ratio

A Pixel aspect ratio (often abbreviated PAR) is a mathematical ratio that describes how the width of a pixel in a digital image compared to the height of that pixel.

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PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November 17, 2006, in North America, and March 23, 2007, in Europe and Australasia.

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Plug-in (computing)

In computing, a plug-in (or plugin, add-in, addin, add-on, or addon) is a software component that adds a specific feature to an existing computer program.

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Pocket PC

A Pocket PC (P/PC, PPC) is a class of personal digital assistant (PDA) that runs the Windows Mobile or Windows Embedded Compact operating system that has some of the abilities of modern desktop PCs.

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Pocket PC 2000

Pocket PC 2000 (marketed as Pocket PC) was the first member of the Windows Mobile family of mobile operating systems that was released on April 19, 2000, and was based on Windows CE 3.0.

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Pocket PC 2002

Pocket PC 2002, originally codenamed "Merlin", was a member of the Windows Mobile family of mobile operating systems, released on October 4, 2001.

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Portable media player

A portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) is a portable consumer electronics device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files.

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QuickTime

QuickTime is a discontinued extensible multimedia architecture created by Apple, which supports playing, streaming, encoding, and transcoding a variety of digital media formats. Windows Media Player and QuickTime are 1991 software, macOS media players, Macintosh media players and Windows media players.

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QuickTime File Format

QuickTime File Format (QTFF) is a computer file format used natively by the QuickTime framework.

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Retronym

A retronym is a newer name for something that differentiates it from something else that is newer and similar; thus, avoiding confusion between the two.

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Ripping

Ripping is the extraction of digital content from a container, such as a CD, onto a new digital location.

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Run-length encoding

Run-length encoding (RLE) is a form of lossless data compression in which runs of data (consecutive occurrences of the same data value) are stored as a single occurrence of that data value and a count of its consecutive occurrences, rather than as the original run.

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SAMI

Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) is a Microsoft accessibility initiative released in the summer of 1998. Windows Media Player and SAMI are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Screensaver

A screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time.

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Server (computing)

A server is a computer that provides information to other computers called "clients" on computer network.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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SoundBridge

SoundBridge is a hardware device from Roku, Inc. designed to play internet radio or digital audio streamed across a home network, over either Wi-Fi or ethernet.

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SRS Labs

SRS Labs, Inc. was a Santa Ana, California-based audio technology engineering company that specialized in audio enhancement solutions for wide variety of consumer electronic devices.

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SubRip

SubRip is a free software program for Microsoft Windows which extracts subtitles and their timings from various video formats to a text file.

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System 7

System 7 (later named Mac OS 7) is the seventh major release of the classic Mac OS operating system for Macintosh computers, made by Apple Computer. Windows Media Player and system 7 are 1991 software.

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Taskbar

The taskbar is a graphical user interface element that has been part of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95, displaying and facilitating switching between running programs. Windows Media Player and taskbar are Windows components.

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Theme (computing)

In computing, a theme is a preset package containing graphical appearance and functionality details.

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Universal Plug and Play

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a set of networking protocols on the Internet Protocol (IP) that permits networked devices, such as personal computers, printers, Internet gateways, Wi-Fi access points and mobile devices, to seamlessly discover each other's presence on the network and establish functional network services.

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User-Mode Driver Framework

User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) is a device-driver development platform first introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, and is also available for Windows XP.

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Variable bitrate

Variable bitrate (VBR) is a term used in telecommunications and computing that relates to the bitrate used in sound or video encoding.

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Video for Windows

Video for Windows was a suite of video-playing and editing software introduced by Microsoft in 1992. Windows Media Player and video for Windows are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Video game console

A video game console is an electronic device that outputs a video signal or image to display a video game that can be played with a game controller.

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VP9

VP9 is an open and royalty-free video coding format developed by Google.

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WAV

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced or) is an audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computers. Windows Media Player and WAV are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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WebM

WebM is an audiovisual media file format.

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Windows 10

Windows 10 is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.

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Windows 11

Windows 11 is the latest major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system, released on October 5, 2021.

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Windows 2000

Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses.

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Windows 3.0

Windows 3.0 is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, launched in 1990.

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Windows 3.1

Windows 3.1 is a major release of Microsoft Windows.

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Windows 7

Windows 7 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows 8

Windows 8 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows 95

Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of operating systems.

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Windows 98

Windows 98 is a consumer-oriented operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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Windows 9x

Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows computer operating systems produced from 1995 to 2000, which were based on the Windows 95 kernel and its underlying foundation of MS-DOS, both of which were updated in subsequent versions.

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Windows Embedded Compact

Windows Embedded Compact, formerly Windows Embedded CE, Windows Powered and Windows CE, is a discontinued operating system developed by Microsoft for mobile and embedded devices.

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Windows Me

Windows Me (Millennium Edition) is an operating system developed by Microsoft as part of its Windows 9x family of Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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Windows Media

Windows Media is a discontinued multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. Windows Media Player and Windows Media are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Windows Media Audio

Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft.

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Windows Media Center

Windows Media Center (WMC) is a digital video recorder and media player created by Microsoft. Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology, Windows components and Windows media players.

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Windows Media Connect

Windows Media Connect (WMC) is a UPnP AV server from Microsoft for Windows XP and later Windows operating systems, to share and stream media on a Windows computer to WMC clients. Windows Media Player and Windows Media Connect are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Windows Media DRM

Windows Media DRM or WMDRM, is a Digital Rights Management service for the Windows Media platform. Windows Media Player and Windows Media DRM are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Windows Media Encoder

Windows Media Encoder (WME) is a discontinued, freeware media encoder developed by Microsoft which enables content developers to convert or capture both live and prerecorded audio, video, and computer screen images to Windows Media formats for live and on-demand delivery.

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Windows Media Player

Windows Media Player (WMP, officially referred to as Windows Media Player Legacy to distinguish it from the new Windows Media Player introduced with Windows 11), is the first media player and media library application that Microsoft developed to play audio and video on personal computers. Windows Media Player and Windows Media Player are 1991 software, macOS media players, Macintosh media players, Microsoft Windows multimedia technology, Microsoft software, Pocket PC software, tag editors, Windows 11, Windows CD ripping software, Windows Mobile Standard software, Windows components and Windows media players.

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Windows Media Player (2022)

Windows Media Player (or simply Media Player) is a video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and subsequently backported to Windows 10. Windows Media Player and Windows Media Player (2022) are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology, Microsoft software, Windows 11 and Windows media players.

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Windows Media Player Playlist

WPL (Windows Media Player Playlist) is a computer file format that stores multimedia playlists. Windows Media Player and Windows Media Player Playlist are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Windows Media Services

Windows Media Services (WMS) is streaming media server software from androids that allows a Windows Server administrator to generate streaming media (audio/video). Windows Media Player and Windows Media Services are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Windows Media Video

Windows Media Video (WMV) is a series of video codecs and their corresponding video coding formats developed by Microsoft. Windows Media Player and Windows Media Video are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile was a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft for smartphones and personal digital assistants.

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Windows Mobile 2003

Windows Mobile 2003, originally codenamed "Ozone", was a member of the Windows Mobile family of mobile operating systems, released on June 23, 2003.

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Windows Mobile 5.0

Windows Mobile 5.0 is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows Mobile 6.0

Windows Mobile 6, formerly codenamed "Crossbow",De Herrera, Chris.

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Windows Mobile 6.1

Windows Mobile 6.1 is a version of the Windows Mobile operating system, released on April 1, 2008. Windows Media Player and Windows Mobile 6.1 are Microsoft software.

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Windows NT

Windows NT is a proprietary graphical operating system produced by Microsoft as part of its Windows product line, the first version of which, Windows NT 3.1, was released on July 27, 1993.

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Windows NT 3.1

Windows NT 3.1 is the first major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, released on July 27, 1993.

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Windows NT 3.5

Windows NT 3.5 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses.

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Windows NT 3.51

Windows NT 3.51 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses.

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Windows NT 4.0

Windows NT 4.0 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses.

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Windows RT

Windows RT is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows Server

Windows Server (formerly Windows NT Server) is a group of server operating systems (OS) that has been developed by Microsoft since 1993.

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Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2003, codenamed "Whistler Server", is the sixth version of the Windows Server operating system produced by Microsoft.

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Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008, codenamed "Longhorn Server", is the eighth release of the Windows Server operating system produced by Microsoft as part of the Windows NT family of the operating systems.

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Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2, codenamed "Windows Server 7", is the ninth version of the Windows Server operating system produced by Microsoft and released as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems.

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Windows Update

Windows Update is a Microsoft service for the Windows 9x and Windows NT families of the Microsoft Windows operating system, which automates downloading and installing Microsoft Windows software updates over the Internet. Windows Media Player and Windows Update are Windows components.

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Windows Vista

Windows Vista is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft.

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Windows XP

Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system.

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Windows XP Media Center Edition

Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) is a version of the Windows XP operating system which was the first version of Windows to include Windows Media Center, designed to serve as a home-entertainment hub.

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Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is an edition of Windows XP for x86-64 personal computers.

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Windows XP visual styles

Windows XP visual styles are customizations of the graphical user interface of Windows XP. Windows Media Player and Windows XP visual styles are Microsoft Windows multimedia technology.

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Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft.

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XML

Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data.

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Y′UV

Y′UV, also written YUV, is the color model found in the PAL analogue color TV standard (excluding PAL-N).

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Zune

Zune is a defunct brand of digital media products and services that was marketed by Microsoft from November 2006 until it was discontinued in June 2012.

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.m2ts

.m2ts is a filename extension used for the Blu-ray disc Audio-Video (BDAV) MPEG-2 Transport Stream (M2TS) container file format.

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3GP and 3G2

3GP (3GPP file format) is a multimedia container format defined by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for 3G UMTS multimedia services.

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See also

1991 software

MacOS media players

Macintosh media players

Microsoft Windows multimedia technology

Pocket PC software

Tag editors

Windows 11

Windows CD ripping software

Windows Mobile Standard software

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Player

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