Microsoft Silverlight
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- Company: Microsoft
- Website: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/
Silverlight is Microsoft's rich internet application platform. This is a list of the container and codec formats that Silverlight can play back natively:
Containers:
- presumably ASF
Video Codecs:
- WMV1: Windows Media Video 7
- WMV2: Windows Media Video 8
- WMV3: Windows Media Video 9
- WMVA: Windows Media Video Advanced Profile, non-VC-1
- WMVC1: Windows Media Video Advanced Profile, VC-1
- H.264: Announced for the next version of Silverlight
Audio Codecs:
- WMA 7: Windows Media Audio 7
- WMA 8: Windows Media Audio 8
- WMA 9: Windows Media Audio 9
- MP3: ISO/MPEG Layer-3
- Input: ISO/MPEG Layer-3 compliant data stream
- Channel configurations: mono, stereo
- Sampling frequencies: 8, 11.025, 12, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, and 48 kHz
- Bit rates: 8-320 kbps, variable bit rate
- Limitations: "free format mode" (see ISO/IEC 11172-3, sub clause 2.4.2.3) is not supported.
- AAC: Announced for the next version of Silverlight
Tools
Microsoft's tool Expression Encoder 1.0 can convert A/V files to the Silverlight format. A trial version is available at http://www.microsoft.com/Expression/products/download.aspx?key=encoder.