File types supported by Windows Media Center
You can make Windows Media Center the default player for a number of file types. Additional file formats might be supported if you install new codecs – which are software or hardware used to compress and decompress digital media.
This article covers:
The following table lists the music file types that are supported in Windows Media Center.
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Music file types (format)
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File name extensions
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Audio CDs
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.cda
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Windows Media Audio file
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.asx, .wm, .wma, and .wmx
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Windows audio file
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.wav
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MP3 audio file
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.mp3 and .m3u
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The following table lists the video file types that are supported in Windows Media Center.
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Video file types (format)
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File name extensions
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Windows Media file
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.wm and .asf
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Windows Media Video file
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.wmv
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Windows video file
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.avi
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Microsoft Recorded TV Show file
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.dvr-ms
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Movie file
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.mpeg, .mpg, .mpe, .m1v, .mp2, and .mpv2
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The following table lists the picture file types that are supported in Windows Media Center. Digital pictures that are taken with a digital camera and saved in RAW format are not supported in Windows Media Center. Animated .gif files are not fully supported. For this file format, you can still view the picture image but it does not animate.
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Picture file types (format)
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File name extensions
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Joint Photographic Experts Group
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.jpg and .jpeg
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Tagged Image File Format
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.tif and .tiff
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Graphics Interchange Format
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.gif
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Bitmap
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.bmp
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Windows Metafile
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.wmf
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Portable Network Graphics
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.png
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