Windows Media is a discontinued
multimedia framework for
media creation and distribution for
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
. It consists of a
software development kit (SDK) with several
application programming interface
An application programming interface (API) is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how t ...
s (API) and a number of prebuilt technologies, and is the replacement of
NetShow technologies.
The Windows Media SDK was replaced by
Media Foundation when
Windows Vista was released.
Software
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Windows Media Center
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Windows Media Player
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Windows Media Encoder
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Windows Media Services
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Windows Movie Maker
Formats
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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. ASF is part of the Media Foundation framewor ...
(ASF)
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Advanced Stream Redirector (ASX)
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Windows Media Audio (WMA)
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Windows Media Playlist (WPL)
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Windows Media Video (WMV) and
VC-1
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Windows Media Station (NSC)
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WMV HD, (Windows Media Video High Definition), the branding name for
high definition
High definition or HD may refer to:
Visual technologies
*HD DVD, discontinued optical disc format
*HD Photo, former name for the JPEG XR image file format
*HDV, format for recording high-definition video onto magnetic tape
* HiDef, 24 frames-pe ...
(HD) media content encoded using Windows Media codecs. WMV HD is not a separate codec.
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HD Photo (formerly Windows Media Photo, standardized as JPEG XR)
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DVR-MS, the recording format used by Windows Media Center
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SAMI, the closed caption format developed by Microsoft. It can be used to synchronize captions and audio descriptions with online video.
Protocols
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Media Stream Broadcast (MSB), for
multicast distribution of Advanced Systems Format content over a network
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Media Transfer Protocol (MTP), for transferring and synchronizing media on portable devices
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Microsoft Media Services
Microsoft Media Server (MMS), a Microsoft proprietary network-streaming protocol, serves to transfer unicast data in Windows Media Services (previously called NetShow Services). MMS can be transported via UDP or TCP. The MMS default port is U ...
(MMS), the streaming transport protocol
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Windows Media DRM, an implementation of
digital rights management
Digital rights management (DRM) is the management of legal access to digital content. Various tools or technological protection measures (TPM) such as access control technologies can restrict the use of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works. ...
Website
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WindowsMedia.com
See also
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QuickTime
QuickTime is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. Created in 1991, the latest Mac version, QuickTime X, is avai ...
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Apple Computer's multimedia framework
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Silverlight
External links
Official websiteDescription of the algorithm used for WMA encryption
Microsoft Windows multimedia technology
Multimedia frameworks
Discontinued Microsoft software
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