Windows Media Player is a major player in the online media world form Microsoft. It comes pre-installed on every windows PC. Windows Media Player uses it own video and audio codecs, these are called WMV for video and WMA for audio. One of the main reasons for the players popularity with publishers is that they know that all modern PC's have got windows Media Player installed so the user will not need a to download anything to be able to watch the video. also Windows Media Player/Encoder produces good quality video streams well suited to being sent over the internet.

Most Video will play natively within the web browser using a pre-installed plugin. Their is also a standalone player which is able to play and sort any video or audio file that are saved on the users hard disc.

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