More about audio-video

[Robert Sneidar]

Do you mean Codecs? To answer your question, yes and no. If you never use WMP, you will probably not have a lot of codecs it supports. Even if you do, you may not have all of them. While the audio codec would probably be installed as a dll in Windows somewhere, and so be an OS function, some app probably put it there. Try playing a wmv file on OS X. You will need Flip4Mac. Once you install it, anything needing to play WMV files will have access to the codec. So the correct answer I suppose is, yes, no. 

Bob


On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:53 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Decoders are part of apps and not the OS?
> 
> At least in my case, the videos will be known in advance and have the right extensions. I guess that doesn't mean today's test videos did though.
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