Groove Music: A preinstalled app that's used to play digital music. VC-1, MPEG-4, and H.264, H.265, and H.263 codecs: Collectively known as "Standards-based codec components." Enable Windows 10 program such as Windows Media Player to support activities that include the playback and recording of multimedia files that are encoded with standards-based codecs. MPEG, WMA, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, AMR, and Dolby Digital audio codecs: Enable the playback of digital audio content, such as MP3, WMA, MPEG-2 audio, AAC audio, FLAC and ALAC audio, and AC-3 audio.
Windows Portable Devices (WPD) infrastructure: Communicates with attached media and storage devices that include devices that support the Media Transfer Protocol. Media Foundation: Provides support for content protection, audio and video quality, and interoperability for DRM. Also enables computers to find those kinds of files on the network. Media sharing and Play To: Enables music, pictures, and videos on a networked computer to be shared with other computers and devices on the same network. Windows Media DRM: Enables the secure delivery of protected content for playback on a computer, portable device, or network device. Windows Media Format: Provides support for the Advanced Systems Format (ASF) file container, the Windows Media audio and video codecs, basic network streaming capability, and digital rights management (DRM). Windows Media Player ActiveX control: Exposes methods and properties to manipulate multimedia playback from a webpage or an application. Windows Media Player user experience: Enables Windows Media Player features, such as the ability to play media files and audio CDs, manage media in a library, create a playlist, provide metadata (including album art) for media, create an audio CD, transfer music to a portable music player, and play streaming content from a website. These technologies include, but are not limited to, the following features: Windows 10 N includes the same functionality as other Windows 10 editions, except for Windows Media Player and related technologies.
This update doesn’t replace a previously released update. You must restart the computer after you apply this update. To apply this update, you don't have to make any changes to the registry.
To install this update, you must have Windows 10 N installed. Media codecs for playback of media in apps and in the browser: These apps include, but are not limited to: Note Although you are not prompted to restart your computer, you must restart in order to successfully complete installation of the Media Feature Pack.Īfter you install the Media Feature Pack, there are additional apps that you can install from the Microsoft Store to help you regain fuller Windows 10 functionality. To install the Media Feature Pack, navigate to Settings > Apps > Apps and features > Optional features > Add a feature, and then locate Media Feature Pack in the list of available optional features. Media Feature Pack for N versions of Windows 10 is available for download as an Optional Feature.
How to get this update Microsoft Optional Features Customers who want to use Windows Mixed Reality must install a non-N version of Windows 10. The Media Feature Pack for N versions of Windows 10 isn’t compatible with Windows Mixed Reality. Except for Windows Mixed Reality, customers can make these websites and software function correctly by installing the Media Feature Pack for N versions of Windows 10. Some websites and software, such as Windows Store apps and Microsoft Office, use Windows Media-related files that are not included in the Windows 10 N edition.
Recent features such as Windows Mixed Reality, Cortana with voice, Windows Hello, Game DVR, and PDF viewing in the Microsoft Edge browser that rely on Windows Media files are not included in Windows 10 N.
You must install additional software from Microsoft to have this communication functionality and to play or create audio CDs, media files, and video DVDs to stream music or to take and store pictures. These include media-related technologies, such as Windows Media Player, and certain preinstalled media apps, such as Groove Music, Movies & TV, Voice Recorder, and Skype. This update provides support for media features in Windows 10 N.