Note: As of January 12, 2006, Microsoft has officialy stopped development of Windows Media Player software for the Mac, and are offering Flip4Mac WMV instead. Version 9 for OS X supports the embedded playback of media in Web pages, digital rights management (DRM) functionality, and includes support for content in the Windows Media 9 format. This player supports the following video codecs: MPEG4 v2, MPEG4 v3, MPEG4S, and JPG (Illustrated Audio) and audio codecs: WMAudio v1, WMAudio v2,, Voxware MetaSound, and MPEG II Layer 3. Windows Media Player is a player for one of the most increasingly common media groups found on the Web these days: Microsoft Windows Media.