Windows Media Player for Mac, Your Digital Entertainment Resource


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Download and find information related to Windows Media Player for Mac. The latest version of Media Player for Mac is 9.




  • Support for local and streamed playback of Windows Media files
  • ASX version 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0 parsing
  • UDP, TCP/IP, HTTP and multicast streaming
  • Protocol automatic ordering and rollover
  • Multiple bit rates
  • Intelligent streaming
  • Logging
  • Producer file support
  • Server Side playlist
  • Favorites
  • Closed captioning
  • HTTP basic authentication
  • Limited Windows Media Download (WMD) support (will not display ICP skin - only playback of audio/video)



Comprehensive List of Codecs Supported
Audio:

  • Windows Media Audio Decode (Format Tag: WMA2 = 353, WMA1=352)
  • Decodes all CBR profiles from 5kbps to 192kbps, 8kHz to 48kHz, mono and stereo
  • Decodes all v9 CBR profiles, from 5kbps to 320kbps, 8kHz to 48kHz, mono and stereo
  • Decodes all quality based, bit rate based and peak constrained VBR profiles
  • Supports WMA v1 and WMA v2 bit streams
  • Decodes WMV v9 Pro downsampled to stereo
  • Windows Media Audio Pro Decode
  • 5.1 discrete to stereo fold down only
  • Windows Media Audio Lossless Decode
  • Windows Media Audio Voice Decode (Format Tag: 10)
  • Decodes all CBR profiles from 4kbps to 20kbps, 8kHz to 22kHz, mono
  • Supports Speech mode, Music Mode and post-filtering
  • G.726


Video:
  • Windows Media Video Decode (4CC: WMV7, WMV8, WMV9)
  • Decodes content encoded with WMV v7 and v8
  • Decodes content encoded with WMV v9
  • Decodes WMV v9 1p/2p CBR/VBR
  • Windows Media Video Image (4CC: WMVP)
  • Decodes CBR/VBR content
  • MS MPEG-4 Decode (4CC: MP42, MP43)
  • Decodes content encoded with MS MPEG-4 v2 and MS MPEG-4 v3
  • ISO MPEG-4 Decode (4CC: MP4S)
  • Decodes ISO MPEG-4 v1.0 (subset of simple profile)
  • Windows Media Video Screen v7
The following hardware and software are required to use Windows Media Player 9 Series for Mac OS X:

Operating System
  • Apple Mac OS X version 10.1.5 or later (latest release of version 10.2.x recommended)
Computer
  • Any computer supported by Mac OS X version 10.1.5 (450 megahertz (MHz) PowerPC G3 processor or higher recommended)
Memory
  • 128 megabytes (MB) or higher
Free hard disk space
  • 10 MB
Monitor color depth
  • 256 colors (Millions of colors recommended)
Web browser
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 for Mac, America Online for Mac OS X, Netscape 7.1, MSN for Mac OS X version 2.0, or Apple Safari 1.0


Awards
Reviews

by CNET

introducing Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X. Sporting a new brushed steel skin for Apple's newest operating system, this new version of our player opens the world of Windows Media 9 content to Macintosh users, enabling them to access the best audio and video on the Web."
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