Understand What Types of Files Are Supported
As you use Media Center, you’ll soon see how useful it is for playing video, music, and picture files. However, it doesn’t support all file types and extensions available today, so we’ll outline the basic file types that Media Center supports here.
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You can add more file types to Media Center if you install the codecs (compression hardware or software) for a different file type. These are available online through a variety of vendors.
In case you’re not familiar with the terms, we’ll review them. A file extension is the brief tag at the end of a file name that is preceded by a period. For example, when you see the file sunset.jpg, the file extension is .jpg. The file type, then, is determined by the ...
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