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Windows Media is a discontinued multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. It consisted of a software development kit with several application programming interfaces and several prebuilt technologies. It is the replacement of NetShow technologies.
The Windows Media SDK was replaced by Media Foundation when Windows Vista was released in 2007.
Applications
- Windows Media Center
- Windows Media Player
- Windows Media Encoder
- Windows Media Services
- Windows Movie Maker
Formats
- Advanced Systems Format (ASF)
- Advanced Stream Redirector (ASX) and Windows Media Playlist (WPL)
- Windows Media Audio (WMA)
- Windows Media Video (WMV) and VC-1
- Windows Media Station (NSC)
- Windows Media Video High Definition (WMV HD), the branding name for high definition (HD) media content encoded using Windows Media codecs. WMV HD is not a separate codec.
- HD Photo (formerly Windows Media Photo, standardized as JPEG XR)
- DVR-MS, the recording format used by Windows Media Center
- Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI), the closed caption format developed by Microsoft. It can be used to synchronize captions and audio descriptions with online video.
Protocols
- Media Stream Broadcast (MSB), for multicast distribution of Advanced Systems Format content over a network
- Media Transfer Protocol (MTP), for transferring and synchronizing media on portable devices
- Microsoft Media Server (MMS), the streaming transport protocol
- Windows Media DRM, an implementation of digital rights management