Microsoft has had a strange relationship with local video playback for the past several years. It’s one of those features that was caught in the purgatory that was created with the start of Windows 10 ...

Microsoft Friday will release a near-final version of its Windows Media Player 9 software and announce the availability of a new version of its digital home-movie-making application, which uses the ...

Just curious as to how Windows Media video encoding stacks up to the likes of MPEG-2, MJPEG, HuffyUV, DivX, etc. Windows Media seems to have a very attractive compression rate. Since I'm a newbie at ...

To open the new Windows Media Player Troubleshooter, launch the GetHelp app, type Windows Media Player Troubleshooter in the text box; or you can also launch it ...

Microsoft has backported another Windows 11 app to Windows 10. The updated Windows Media Player (do not confuse it with the classic WMP) is now available for download in the Release Preview Channel.

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.