The Media Player control acts as a universal player for rendering most of today's standard multimedia formats. This includes stored and live content in network streaming formats, as well as non-streaming formats. Network streaming formats supported by the player include:
In addition to the standard formats listed above, the player supports playback of RealAudio (RA) and RealVideo (RV) content as well.
Non-streaming (local playback) formats supported by the control include all of the network streaming formats previously listed and the following: