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Everything here is in mp3 format as far as audio files. mpeg II files no longer according to blogs about MS removing that type of support from WMP for 8. Upon seeing Windows DVD Player listed among the apps that come included MS apparently wasn't going to striip everything out of Windows but split it up by taking WMP apart along with it being a separate download if you went for the Home edition. Pro was left seeing WMP included in Windows since MS was already charging more for it!
The main "excuse"? according to some of those early 8 non MS blogs about that upcoming version prior to it's release back in 2012 was that MS was making the claim that WMP no longer needed to see dvd playback and video codecs since there are already so many players on the web people can choose from. The problem is is that a good number of so called freebies often see IE toolbar installers or some other forms of adwares that get picked up by the updated forms of web filtering some av programs feature. The download for the freebie is often flagged and contained in a vault by the filtering processes some security wares offer!
One of the few free players that come the closest to WMPlayer is called MPlayer for Media Player which I had downloaded for a laptop that while having 7 and WMP 12 was unable to play dvd movies on it for some reason. That was on the 32bit 7 Home Premium edition that came preinstalled on an HP laptop. So why is it that a clean install of 7 HP on a mini tower case doesn' run into the same problem? MS knows!