windows media player for mac

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. New plug-in support added for Internet Explorer, Netscape and Safari enables playback of Windows Media files right from the browser. Optimized specifically for the Macintosh, the player provides intuitive design, reliable performance, and compatibility with most popular Macintosh models and system software. If you don't have Mac OS X, get the Windows Media Player for Mac 7.1 which runs on the Mac Classic OS.

Windows Media Player 7.1 for Mac

Sporting a new Aqua interface and with full support for the industry-leading Windows Media Technologies, this new version of our player opens the world of Windows Media content to Macintosh users, enabling them to access the best audio and video on the Web. Optimized specifically for the Macintosh, the player provides intuitive design, reliable performance, and compatibility with most popular Macintosh models and system software.



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