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[The feature associated with this page, Windows Media Player SDK, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer has been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer instead of Windows Media Player SDK, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]

  • For more information about developing digital media solutions, see the Microsoft Windows Media Developer Center.
  • For more information about Windows Media, see the Windows Media website.
  • For more information about Windows Media Player, see the Windows Media Player webpage on the Windows Media website.
  • To download the Windows SDK, which includes the Windows Media Player SDK, go to the Windows SDK page in the Windows Developer Center.
  • For more information about programming with Microsoft technologies, including Windows Media technologies and software development kits, see the MSDN Library.
  • The current version of the Windows Media Player SDK is version 12. For issues related to the Windows Media Player 11 SDK, see the Windows Media Player 11 SDK Readme.

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