Microsoft KB Archive/311886

= Supported Formats and Codecs in Windows Media Player for Pocket PC =

Article ID: 311886

Article Last Modified on 2/10/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 software for Pocket PC Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 Software Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q311886



SUMMARY
This article lists supported file types, codecs, and protocols in:
 * Windows Media Player 8 for Pocket PC 2002.
 * Windows Media Player 9 for Pocket PC 2003.



File Formats
For streamed or local playback of audio, or audio and video, files.

Supported Formats
These formats are supported if they are encoded in a supported manner. See the &quot;Supported Encoding&quot; section in this article for details.
 * .wma - Windows Media Audio (playback and stream)
 * .wmp - Windows Media Player (playback and stream)
 * .wmv - Windows Media Video (playback and stream)
 * .asf - Advanced Streaming Format (playback and stream)
 * .mp3 - MPEG Layer 3 (playback, but not streaming)

Unsupported Formats
These file formats are not supported, no matter what they contain:
 * Any RealAudio format
 * Anything that is uncompressed
 * Any multicast-only format
 * Any QuickTime format
 * .mp3 playlists (.m3u, .pl, etc.)
 * .avi
 * .avr
 * MPEG-1
 * MIDI
 * 3DMF
 * .aiff
 * .au
 * DIVX

Supported Encoding

 * mp3 - The Fraunhofer IIS-A MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 codec
 * wma - The Microsoft Windows Media Audio codec (the version 2, 7, and 8 codecs). Additionally, Windows Media Player 9 for Pocket PC 2003 supports the version 9 codec.
 * MPEG-4 - The Microsoft MPEG-4 codec (versions 2 and 3) and the ISO MPEG-4 video codec.
 * wmv - The Microsoft Windows Media Video codec (versions 7 and 8). Additionally, Windows Media Player 9 for Pocket PC 2003 supports the version 9 codec.

Unsupported Encoding

 * JPEG motion
 * QuickTime
 * Sorenson video
 * Apple video
 * Any other encoding that is not listed under &quot;Supported Encoding&quot;

Supported Redirect Files
These redirects are supported, but they must point at supported data file formats:
 * .asx - ASF Stream Redirector (script)
 * .wax - Windows Media Audio Redirector (script)
 * .wmx - Windows Media Redirector (script)
 * .wmp - Windows Media Player
 * .wm - Windows Media
 * .wvx - Windows Media Video Redirector (script)

Supported Protocols

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

Unsupported Protocols

 * RTP
 * RTSP

Additional query words: wmp8 wmp mms ie merlin rapier

Keywords: kbinfo kbenv KB311886

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