Microsoft published a new support page with details about codec support in the Windows Media Player app. As it turns out, the company is removing AC-3 Dolby Digital support in Windows 11 version 24H2.

Microsoft Corp. upped its multimedia arsenal today with the release of Windows Media Audio and Video 8, updates that help improve software performance for companies that provide digital media content ...

While the new video codec features of WMV are exciting, the biggest technical leap is the new Windows Media Audio 10 Professional codec (WMA Pro 10), which offers up to twice the improvement in ...

Microsoft announced the final release of its Windows Media Audio and Video 8 codecs. Even more significantly, however, is that Microsoft isn't offering an upgrade to Windows Media Player 8. The new ...

In this article, we will describe how to check installed Codecs on Windows 11/10. In the word codec, the first two letters stand for compression and the last three letters stand for decompression.

PARIS — Eager to move its proprietary audio/video codec into Europe's steadily growing digital radio market, Microsoft Corp. has gained membership in the World DAB Forum, an industry group developing ...