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.

PARIS – Eager to move its proprietary audio/video codec into Europe's steadily growing digital radio market, Microsoft Corp. has gained membership in the World DAB Forum, an industry group developing ...

While the new video codec features of WMV are exciting, the biggest technical leap is the new Windows Media Audio 10 Professional codec (WMA Pro 10), which offers up to twice the improvement in ...

Every now and then I download an .AVI file that uses the Windows Media Audio codec and I don't get any sound. Any idea how I can fix this? Windows Media player tries to download the proper codec, but ...