Supported Formats and Codecs in Windows Media Player for Pocket PC

This article lists supported file types, codecs, and protocols in:

• Windows Media Player 8 for Pocket PC 2002.
• Windows Media Player 9 for Pocket PC 2003.

File Formats

For streamed or local playback of audio, or audio and video, files.

Supported Formats

These formats are supported if they are encoded in a supported manner. See the "Supported Encoding" section in this article for details.

• .wma - Windows Media Audio (playback and stream)
• .wmp - Windows Media Player (playback and stream)
• .wmv - Windows Media Video (playback and stream)
• .asf - Advanced Streaming Format (playback and stream)
• .mp3 - MPEG Layer 3 (playback, but not streaming)

Unsupported Formats

These file formats are not supported, no matter what they contain:

• Any RealAudio format
• Anything that is uncompressed
• Any multicast-only format
• Any QuickTime format
• .mp3 playlists (.m3u, .pl, etc.)
• .avi
• .avr
• MPEG-1
• MIDI
• 3DMF
• .aiff
• .au
• DIVX

Codecs

Supported Encoding

• mp3 - The Fraunhofer IIS-A MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 codec
• wma - The Microsoft Windows Media Audio codec (the version 2, 7, and 8 codecs). Additionally, Windows Media Player 9 for Pocket PC 2003 supports the version 9 codec.
• MPEG-4 - The Microsoft MPEG-4 codec (versions 2 and 3) and the ISO MPEG-4 video codec.
• wmv - The Microsoft Windows Media Video codec (versions 7 and 8). Additionally, Windows Media Player 9 for Pocket PC 2003 supports the version 9 codec.

Unsupported Encoding

• JPEG motion
• QuickTime
• Sorenson video
• Apple video
• Any other encoding that is not listed under "Supported Encoding"

Supported Redirect Files

These redirects are supported, but they must point at supported data file formats:

• .asx - ASF Stream Redirector (script)
• .wax - Windows Media Audio Redirector (script)
• .wmx - Windows Media Redirector (script)
• .wmp - Windows Media Player
• .wm - Windows Media
• .wvx - Windows Media Video Redirector (script)

Transport Protocols

Supported Protocols

• HTT and HTTP proxy - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• MMS - Multimedia Server
• MMST - Multimedia Server - TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)
• MMSU - Multimedia Server - UDP (Universal Datagram Protocol)

Unsupported Protocols

• RTP
• RTSP