What Is Windows Media Player?
Windows Media Player (also know as WMP) is a digital media player/media library application developed by Microsoft.
It is commonly used for playing audio, video and even images on their Windows Operating systems. Windows Media Player is also available on the Pocket PC and Windows Mobile platform. (There were also editions of WMP released for the Mac and Solaris operating systems but they are no longer in development.)
The current version of Windows Media Player is 11, which was released on October 30th, 2006.
Previous versions are:
Windows Media Player 10 - October 12th, 2004
Windows Media Player 9 - January 27th, 2003
Windows Media Player for Windows XP - (Version 8) October 25th, 2001
Windows Media Player 7.1 - May 16th, 2001
Windows Media Player 7.0 - July 17th, 2000
Windows Media Player 6.4 - November 22th, 1999
Windows Media Player 6.1 - June 25th, 1998
The Windows Media Player development team reside in "Building 50" on the famous Microsoft (Redmond) Campus.
You can find a more detailed history here:
http://www.updatexp.com/windowsxpmediaplayer.html
It is commonly used for playing audio, video and even images on their Windows Operating systems. Windows Media Player is also available on the Pocket PC and Windows Mobile platform. (There were also editions of WMP released for the Mac and Solaris operating systems but they are no longer in development.)
The current version of Windows Media Player is 11, which was released on October 30th, 2006.
Previous versions are:
Windows Media Player 10 - October 12th, 2004
Windows Media Player 9 - January 27th, 2003
Windows Media Player for Windows XP - (Version 8) October 25th, 2001
Windows Media Player 7.1 - May 16th, 2001
Windows Media Player 7.0 - July 17th, 2000
Windows Media Player 6.4 - November 22th, 1999
Windows Media Player 6.1 - June 25th, 1998
The Windows Media Player development team reside in "Building 50" on the famous Microsoft (Redmond) Campus.
You can find a more detailed history here:
http://www.updatexp.com/windowsxpmediaplayer.html
Windows Media Player DVD Codec
"Playing Your DVD In WMP..."
For a free piece of software, Windows Media Player is an excellent choice formanaging your growing collection of video and audio files.
However to make the experience of using WMP complete you need to add a simple
plugin that will allow the software to playback your DVD collection too!
You see Windows Media Player does not come with the ability to play your DVDs
due to the fact that it is a free application and any manufacturer that wants to
have this capability in their software must pay a "royalty" payment to the
owners of the DVD format...
So specialist video software companies like COREL and CyberLink have created the
necessary plugin for WMP and paid the royalty" payment, so that you and I can
enjoy playing our DVDs in Windows Media Player.
For more information on a suitable Windows Media Player DVD Decoder for your
PC's operating system you can read Microsoft MVP - Marc Liron's article: Windows Media Player DVD Decoder
Please leave a comment if I can help!
Regards
Xavier Lane
Windows Media Player Product Specialist
Why Use A Windows Media Player DVD Decoder?
Why Play your DVDs in Windows Media Player?I get asked this question a lot.
My simple 2 part answer is that:
1) You do NOT have to learn how to use yet another piece of new of
complicated software with lots of settings! All the modern DVD decoders
available today "integrate" themselves into the Windows Media Player interface.
So you have the new features of DVD playback but keep the familiar look and feel
of WMP...
and
2) PRICE. A Windows Media Player DVD Decoder is usually only a fifth of
the price!
I often travel to conferences with a laptop and a few DVD's for any downtime, so
appreciate having a this type of plugin installed...
You can grab a Windows Media Player DVD Decoder for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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