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.

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Music file types

The following table lists the music file types that are supported in Windows Media Center.

Music file types (format)	File name extensions
Audio CDs	.cda
Windows Media Audio file	.asx, .wm, .wma, and .wmx
Windows audio file	.wav
MP3 audio file	.mp3 and .m3u

Video file types

The following table lists the video file types that are supported in Windows Media Center.

Video file types (format)	File name extensions
Windows Media file	.wm and .asf
Windows Media Video file	.wmv
Windows video file	.avi
Microsoft Recorded TV Show file	.dvr-ms
Movie file	.mpeg, .mpg, .mpe, .m1v, .mp2, and .mpv2

Picture file types

The following table lists the picture file types that are supported in Windows Media Center.

Picture file types (format)	File name extensions
Joint Photographic Experts Group	.jpg and .jpeg
Tagged Image File Format	.tif and .tiff
Graphics Interchange Format	.gif
Bitmap	.bmp
Windows Metafile	.wmf
Portable Network Graphics	.png

Notes

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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Applies to these editions of Windows Vista:

See also

File types supported by Windows Media Center

Music file types

Video file types

Picture file types

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