Microsoft KB Archive/277699

= Supported Codecs in Windows Media Player 7 for Mac =

Article ID: 277699

Article Last Modified on 8/29/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.0 for Macintosh

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This article was previously published under Q277699



SUMMARY
Codecs are used for compressing and decompressing digital media. This article lists the codecs that are used by Windows Media Player 7 for Mac.



Audio Codecs

 * Microsoft Windows Media Audio codec version 1.0, 2.0, and 7.0
 * Sipro Lab Telecom ACELP codec
 * Fraunhofer IIS-A MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 codec
 * Voxware MetaSound codec (16kbps, 16kHz mono)
 * G.726

Video Codecs

 * Microsoft Windows Media Video codec version 7.0
 * Microsoft Windows Media Screen codec version 7.0
 * Microsoft MPEG-4 codec version 2.0 and 3.0
 * ISO MPEG-4 video codec version 1.0

