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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Windows Media
Player 12, developed by Microsoft, is the release of Windows Media
Player superseding Windows Media Player 11. It was first introduced in
October 2008 at the 2008 Professional Developers Conference and has been
released as part of the Windows 7 operating system. And has not been
released for previous versions of Windows. Windows Media Player 12 adds
native support for H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 2 video formats, AAC audio and
3GP, MP4 and MOV container formats. Microsoft has recognized AVCHD as
one of the popular implementations of H.264 encoding scheme, and has
file extensions M2TS and MTS pre-registered in the system. Windows Media
Player is able to index content of these files, while Windows Explorer
is capable of creating thumbnails for each clip.
