Which File Types Are Supported In Windows 7 Media Center

Windows 7 Media Center is a great improvement from its previous versions (Windows Media Center Edition 2005 and Windows Vista Media Center). One of the many new improvements is that now we have a variety of different codecs built-in, allowing us to play all kinds of video, music and picture file types in our computer. So, before going online searching for codec packs and maybe end-up installing something that we don’t really need. It would be nice to review which are the file types supported in Windows 7 Media Center first.

Here is the list of video file types that are supported in Media Center:

Note: Some video file format might not be supported when you try to access them with Media Center Extender.

Here is the list of music file types that are supported in Media Center:

Here is the list of picture file types that are supported in Media Center:

Note: Animation on GIF files are not supported.