The .wma file name extension is used for Windows Media Audio (WMA) files that contain audio compressed with one of the Windows Media Audio codecs. The .wmv file name extension is used for Windows Media Video (WMV) files that contain both audio and video compressed with the Windows Media Audio and Video codecs. The .asf file name extension is used for content that includes audio only or both audio and video. The content in an .

We chose to use Flash video (FLV) because it is the “safest” video platform meaning that the most people can view the videos without having to download extra software. Flash video is used by all the major video sharing sites (YouTube, MetaCafe, Revver and DailyMotion to name a few) and only requires the Flash Plug-in to play. Windows Media (WMV) files only play on PCs running Microsoft Windows and many people don’t have QuickTime installed.

Available Windows Media format versions are 7, 8 and 9. If you encode your media with Windows Media 9 format and a user's Windows Media Player is older version or does not have the required codec install, he/she will not be able to play the media file. However, most of the time, Microsoft Windows Media codecs are automatically downloaded by Windows Media Player, including all Windows Media codec updates. Windows Media 9 does offer new features and improvements.

You need to have the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack or Real Alternative installed. The 'RealMedia DirectShow filter' and 'RealMedia codecs' that come with these two packages are required.

Apex WMV ASF Converter supports to Convert WMV ASF to MPEG VCD DVD MOV QuickTime RM RMVB WMV ASF AVI DIVX XVID iPod MP4 Flash MP3 iMage PSP 3GP xBox PPC PMP Zune Apple TV iPhone.

Yes, these formats are supported, but currently in "Wiagra Easy Video Joiner" tool only. This tool is installed together with "Wiagra Video Joiner" and you can find it in "Start/Programs/Wiagra/Wiagra Video Joiner/Easy Joiners" submenu of your Windows menu.

We used to use a custom video player of our own design but it was too taxing on our server and didn’t allow external embedding so after much research we chose to switch to Brightcove. With the new player you can watch all the videos on our front page, embed our videos on your own website if you want and email your favouriets to family and friends.

Our software does not convert protected WMA files. To convert the WMA files, please make sure you may play it on your computer and the WMA file(s) are not copyright protected! And please make sure that the Windows Media Format codec is installed on your computer. If not, please download it from here and install it to your computer.

Please enter the options dialog to see what's your destination output folder. For example, if you are converting MP3 to WMA files, you should see the WMA output folder. Then enter the output folder for the converted files. If there are no converted files in the output folder, please see the above question 19.

Microsoft Windows Media Audio must be installed on your system in order for these formats to be supported. To get WMA, you must download Windows Media Player 7 or higher from Microsoft's web site.

Windows Media Center always runs in video mixing renderer mode so there is no need to change any settings. However, only Windows Media Center Edition 2005 supports multiple displays. If you use an older version of Windows Media Center, the application will disable playback when you move the Windows Media Center window to another display.

Yes. InqScribe 1.5 uses Windows Media Player to play back .wmv and .wma files. Windows users may even set Windows Media Player to be their preferred media player for all content that is not QuickTime-exclusive. (However, we recommend using QuickTime as your preferred player because it offers a few more capabilities. Mac OS X users who need to play Windows Media files can download the free Flip4Mac WMV QuickTime component. This enables playback of .wmv and .wma content within QuickTime.

If you have the 'full' version of Winamp it can play WMA files, and you can try writing to a WAV output file using the Nullsoft Disk Writer plugin... but sometimes it won't work - you get a message saying "Sorry, no .wav writing support for DRM enabled WRM streams". This figures, I guess. Winamp is basically playing by the rules set by Microsoft et al. There's no technical reason for not doing this... it's a "policy" thing.

The .wmv links to a video in the Windows Media format, which should work on all machines running some form of Microsoft Windows. For the latest free player, please click here (Windows users only). The .mov links to a video in the Apple QuickTime format, which should work on all machines running Mac OS, and can easily be installed on a Windows machine. For the latest free player, please click here (Mac or Windows). For Mac users who want to see the .

Before version 5.0, we only support PCM audio stream when converting AVI to WMV/ASF. If the audio in AVI are encoded in other format, we may miss the audio (The video will be OK). But there is workaround, you can convert the AVI to DivX by using Easy Video Converter with audio encoded in PCM, then you can convert it to WMV/ASF without problem. version v5.0 or later should not have such problem.

Please make sure you have install the latest Microsoft DirectX and Windows Media Player which includes the latest wmv, asf decoder.

To create Windows Media files, you must purchase and use software that has the ability to encode media to the Windows digital format. Please see the Windows Media Web site at http://www.windowsmedia.com for more information.

Note: The following instructions pertain to Windows Media Player version 11, which is included standard with the Windows Vista operating system. It is also available as a free upgrade from Microsoft. Click [Sync] on the Windows Media Player toolbar. The Sync List window opens to the right of the Library. Windows Media Player will transfer the music tracks into the WS-311M. When the sync is completed, a display will show how much free memory remains in the recorder.