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Windows Media

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Windows Media is a discontinued multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. It consists of a software development kit (SDK) with several application programming interfaces (API) and a number of prebuilt technologies, and is the replacement of NetShow technologies.

Contents

The Windows Media SDK is replaced by Media Foundation.

Software

  • Windows Media Center
  • Windows Media Player
  • Windows Media Encoder
  • Windows Media Services
  • Windows Movie Maker

    • Formats

  • Advanced Systems Format (ASF)
  • Advanced Stream Redirector (ASX)
  • Windows Media Audio (WMA)
  • Windows Media Playlist (WPL)
  • Windows Media Video (WMV) and VC-1
  • Windows Media Station (NSC)
  • WMV HD, (Windows Media Video High Definition), the branding name for high definition (HD) media content encoded using Windows Media codecs. WMV HD is not a separate codec.
  • HD Photo (formerly Windows Media Photo, standardized as JPEG XR)
  • DVR-MS, the recording format used by Windows Media Center
  • SAMI, the closed caption format developed by Microsoft. It can be used to synchronize captions and audio descriptions with online video.

    • Protocols

  • Media Stream Broadcast (MSB), for multicast distribution of Advanced Systems Format content over a network
  • Media Transfer Protocol (MTP), for transferring and synchronizing media on portable devices
  • Microsoft Media Services (MMS), the streaming transport protocol
  • Windows Media DRM, an implementation of digital rights management

    • References

    Windows Media Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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