Microsoft KB Archive/839084

= List of supported formats for Windows Media Player 9 Series for Pocket PC =

Article ID: 839084

Article Last Modified on 5/20/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 software for Pocket PC Standard Edition

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SUMMARY
Microsoft Windows Media Player 9 Series for Pocket PC supports certain formats for the following:
 * File formats
 * Encoding methods
 * Redirects
 * Transport protocols

This article lists the formats that are supported and that are not supported.



File formats that are supported

 * Advanced Streaming Format (.asf) - playback and streaming
 * MPEG-1 Layer 3 (.mp3) - playback only
 * Microsoft Windows Media Audio (.wma) - playback and streaming
 * Microsoft Windows Media Player (.wmp) - playback and streaming
 * Microsoft Windows Media Video (.wmv) - playback and streaming

File formats that are not supported

 * Audio (.au)
 * Audio Interchange File Format (.aiff )
 * Audio Video Interleaved (.avi)
 * Automatic Voice Recognition (.avr)
 * Digital Video Express (.divx)
 * Musical Instrument Digital Interface (.midi)
 * MPEG-1 (.mpg) by Moving Picture Expert Group
 * MPEG-1 Layer 3 (.mp3) playlists - .m3u, .pl, and others by Moving Picture Expert Group
 * Multicast-only
 * QuickDraw 3-D (.3dmf) by Apple
 * QuickTime (.mov or .qt) by Apple
 * RealAudio (.ram) by Real
 * Uncompressed formats
 * Any format that is not listed under &quot;File formats that are supported&quot;

Encoding methods that are supported

 * The Fraunhofer IIS-A MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 (.mp3) codec
 * The International Standards Organization (ISO) MPEG-4 video codec
 * The Microsoft MPEG-4 codec - versions 2 and 3
 * The Microsoft Windows Media Audio (WMA) codec - version 2, version 7, and version 8

(Windows Media Player 9 for Pocket PC 2003 supports the version 9 codec)
 * The Microsoft Windows Media Video (WMV) codec - versions 7 and 8

(Windows Media Player 9 Series for Pocket PC supports the version 9 codec)

Encoding methods that are not supported

 * Apple video
 * JPEG motion
 * QuickTime
 * Sorenson video
 * Any encoding methods that is not listed in &quot;Encoding methods that are supported&quot;

Redirects that are supported
Although the following redirects are supported, they must point at supported data file formats:
 * Active Streaming Format (ASF) Stream Redirector (.asx) - script
 * Windows Media Audio Redirector (.wax) - script
 * Windows Media (.wm)
 * Windows Media Player (.wmp)
 * Windows Media Redirector (.wmx) - script
 * Windows Media Video Redirector (.wvx) - script

Transport protocols that are supported

 * Hypertext Transfer Protocol(HTTP) and HTTP proxy
 * Multimedia Server (MMS)
 * Multimedia Server - Transmission Control Protocol (MMST)
 * Multimedia Server - Universal Datagram Protocol (MMSU)

Transport protocols that are not supported

 * Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)
 * Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
 * Any protocol that is not listed in &quot;Transport protocols that are supported&quot;

