Windows Media

Windows Media is a multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. It consists of a software development kit with several application programming interfaces and a number of prebuilt technologies.

Applications

 * Windows Media Player - Media playback
 * Windows Media Encoder - Media encoding tool
 * Windows Media Services - streaming media server

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
 * HD Photo (HDP) (formerly Windows Media Photo (WDP)
 * DVR-MS, the recording format used by Windows Media Center
 * SAMI, the closed caption format developed by Microsoft. It can be used to synchronize captions and audio descriptions with online video.

Other

 * Media Transfer Protocol (MTP), for transferring and synchronizing media on portable devices
 * Microsoft Media Services (MMS), the streaming transport protocol
 * Windows Media ndows Media Video High Definition), the branding name for [[high definition (HD) media content encoded using Windows Media codecs. WMV HD is not a separate codec.
 * Windows XP Media Center Edition, versions of Windows XP or later with built-in Windows Media Center
 * Windows Movie Maker, a Windows Media movie editing application
 * Windows 2000 Media Center Edition