Even then we could only manage to stream old school MPEG-1 video to the PS3.

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Microsoft Windows Media Player: This audio and video player supports almost any type of local and streamed multimedia format, including Real Audio, Real Video, QuickTime, MIDI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP3, AVI, .wav, .mov, .vod, and .au.

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This version features support for MiniDV, DVCPro, and DVCam camcorder formats, as well as AVI, AVR, MPEG-1, and OpenDML. Note: This link takes you to a site outside of FileWorld where you can download the player.

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Of course, the much more interesting news about the new ViP622-1 DVR with MPEG-4 and VC-1 support, a 500GB HDD and the ability to hook up USB drives for extra storage was also revealed during the press conference, we'll have more pics and information on that later.

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This is in addition to many other codecs supported in software and you can purchase licenses from the Raspberry Pi Store for MPEG-2 and VC-1 hardware decoding for just a few bucks.

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The MPEG-2 pool included 27 patents from nine different organisations and was eventually licensed to no fewer than 1, 518 firms.

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