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Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X
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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. New plug-in support added for Internet Explorer, Netscape and Safari enables playback of Windows Media files right from the browser.
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If you don't have Mac OS X, get the Windows Media Player for Mac 7.1 which runs on the Macintosh Classic OS.
Important Information
Microsoft will continue to offer Windows Media Player for Mac as a download free of charge, but has no plans to provide future updates or product support.
We are pleased to offer Windows Media® Components for Quicktime, by Flip4Mac™, as an alternative for Mac OS X users wanting to play Windows Media Audio and Windows Media Video.
As with other dated Microsoft products, peer-to-peer support will continue on the Microsoft-hosted Newsgroups Web site.
New world of content
Windows Media is the fastest growing media format on the Web, and Windows Media Player for Mac is the way to experience this great content. Visit WindowsMedia.com to get started.
Optimized for Mac
Windows Media Player for Mac has been designed specifically for the Macintosh platform. The release sports a new, easy-to-use design and enables users to directly access the best content on WindowsMedia.com. In addition to the default look and feel, there are three additional "skins", which includes a mini-skin for audio-only.
Support for Digital Rights Management
Plays secure content protected with Microsoft Windows Media Rights Manager version 1.3.
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Additional Information
Windows Media Playback Details
- 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)
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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
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To Download and Install Windows Media Player 9 for Mac OS X
- Go to the Download Center.
- On the Download Center page, select Player for Mac OS X, and then click Download Now.
Note Windows Media Player for Mac will download to the download location specified in your browser. The default location is the desktop.
You will need to use StuffIt Expander to decompress Windows Media Player for Mac OS X. You can get StuffIt Expander from Allume Systems.
- Double-click the installer icon.
Note During installation, the installer searches for previous versions of the Player. This may take several minutes to complete. To reduce the search time, disconnect from all shared computers or servers prior to running the installer.
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