If you looking for a list of the supported video formats in Windows 7 and whether the format supports features like Fast Forward then checkout Orge’s comprehensive list on his blog. He details of the containers, audio and video codecs and has details comments, its a very useful post!

Containers

  FF/RW Subtitles Selectable audio tracks Useful metadata Chapters
AVI No No No *** No No
MP4 Yes No * No **** No ***** No
TS No No * No **** No ****** No
M2TS No No * No **** No ****** No
WTV Yes Maybe ** Yes Yes No *******

* Despite the spec requiring this, Microsoft decided not to implement MPEG-4 Part 17 “Timed Text”.

** According to this Microsoft Whitepaper, WTV supports most standard types of “captioning” however captioning isn’t what we normally think of as “subtitles”.

Read the rest of Orge’s post for all the details

0 thoughts on “Comprehensive Report of Relevant Container and Codec Support in Windows 7 and Media Center”
  1. I followed a thread on TGB call W7 Codec bible. Worked great for me since the supported listed above just doesn’t cut it!

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