Today we gonna talk this mostly common used media formats. The first one is windows media which has a large group of users since lots of people usually install their computer with windows OS. WMP is short for it and it is designed to play audio, video and viewing images on personal computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system as well as on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based devices. Just like many DVD player softwares for PC, every software manufacturer will try their best to create a software which has function as many as they can. Therefore, WMP has the ability to rip music from and copy music to compact discs, and burning function. And the default file formats are windows media video, namely WMV, windows media audio - WMA, and advanced system format, namely ASF which is mainly used on internet video uploading and downloading and broadcast program having an unbeatable characteristic. WMV and WMA are two very common used files in daily life. What’s more, the current Windows Media Player 12 adds native support for H264 and MPEG-4 part 2 video formats, AAC audio and 3GP, mp4 and MOV container formats.
The second one is QuickTime which is an extensible multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., able to handle various format of digital video. Over half of digital videos is using the QuickTime moive formats. Those friends who love watching movies would realize that lots of file propaganda clips are used QuickTime file format as their digital media presenting format, such as BBC?Bloomberg?HBO?NPR and WGBH Boston. Another group industrial giants are Broderbund?Voyager?Cyan?Pixar?Lucasfilm?Macromedia?Microsoft?Disney and CNN who do the same choice. QuickTime has become the current network digital video and streaming media transmission technology leadership. It supports AIFF, WAV, DV-DIF, MP3, and MPEG these file formats. With additional QuickTime Components, it can also Support ASF, DivX Media Format, Flash Video, Matroska, Ogg and many others. However, compared with RealPlayer, the internet supporting contents is its weakness. Your guess is right, the third player we gonna talk is RealPlayer which is an all-in-one media player that’s able to play virtually all multimedia files out there while offering users a bunch of extra features. These are the formats it supports: RA, RW,RV, RM, RMVB, RP, RT, RAM, RMM, MP3, MP2, M3U, CDA, WAV, AAC, M4A, M4B, MP4, ACP, M4P, AIFF, AU, VOB, DAT, MPG, MPEG, M2V, AVI, DIVX, WMA, WMV, MOV, QT, FLV, SWF and so on. Here I don’t refer to them all. If you want to play your converted DVD files on these media players, you’d better first get familiar with what formats are supported by them. It will help you choosing the right DVD formats with the suitable function you desire. Remember to select a DVD player software windows 8 which has as various formats as possible.