Feature focus: Windows Media support
We’re proud to say that Kinoma Player 4 EX is the only Palm OS player that supports Windows Media Video and Windows Media Audio.
We recently had a customer who posted some interesting questions about Windows Media in our forum, so I thought it’d be useful to provide an overview.
Why Windows Media?
It’s simple — we support Windows Media because it lets you watch and listen to that much more great stuff.
For example, Windows Media Player rips CDs to Windows Media Audio (WMA) by default. Since Kinoma Player has native support for WMA, you won’t have to convert your music to another format when you want to take it with you.
Another great example is the big selection of excellent Reuters Windows Media videos in the Kinoma Media Guide (News > Reuters). They’re always current and informative, and they’re also great to show off to friends and family who don’t yet understand why video on a phone is cool and useful.
Supported formats
Kinoma Player supports the latest versions of the Windows Media video and audio formats, Windows Media Video 9 and Windows Media Audio 9.
Microsoft introduced those formats in 2002, this means that Kinoma Player will let you play most Windows Media files as long as your device has enough oomph to play them.
If you ever run into Windows Media files that need more processing power than you’ve got, or if you find really old files encoded with codecs that are now PC-only, you can make them mobile-friendly simply by re-encoding them with Kinoma Producer or similar encoding tools.