Windows Media Player 11 SDK Art File Formats
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Art File Formats
The following art file formats are recognized by Windows Media Player for skins:
| Format | Extension | Description |
| Bitmap | .bmp | Bitmap images are recommended because they offer the most control over the exact image and colors. |
| Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) | .gif | Compressed image format used for Web pages. Animated GIFs are supported. |
| Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) | .jpeg, .jpg | Compressed image format used for Web pages. |
| Portable Network Graphics (PNG) | .png | Compressed image format used for Web pages. |
If you use one of the compressed file formats that defines a color as transparent to a Web browser, do not define a color as transparent in the image file. Use a visible color to represent transparent areas in your image, and then define that color as transparent in the skin definition file. For example, if you create a GIF file with some areas transparent, they will not be transparent in your final image and you will not be able to use the color you set as transparent in your gif file for the transparency color in your skin.
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