‐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
ÆThere 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
ÆWindows 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
