Editing Windows Media Player (section)

===Enhanced playback features===
Windows Media Player features universal brightness, contrast, saturation and hue adjustments and [[pixel aspect ratio]] for supported video formats. It also includes a 10-band graphic equalizer with presets and [[SRS Labs|SRS WOW]] audio post-processing system. Windows Media Player can also have attached audio and video [[digital signal processing|DSP]] plug-ins which process the output audio or video data. ''Video Smoothing'' was introduced in WMP 9 Series ([[Windows XP|Windows&nbsp;XP]] and later only) which upscales frame-rate by interpolating added frames, in effect giving a smoother playback on low-framerate videos. The player supports subtitles and closed-captioning for local media, video on demand streaming or live streaming scenarios. Typically Windows Media captions support the [[SAMI]] file format but can also carry embedded closed caption data.

The player can use video [[hardware overlay|overlays]] or [[DirectShow filter|VMR]] (Video Mixing Renderer) surfaces, if the video card supports them. In [[Windows XP]], it uses VMR7 by default, but can also be made to use the more advanced [[Y'UV|YUV]] mixing mode by enabling the "Use high quality mode" option in Advanced Performance settings. This turns on deinterlacing, scaling and improved color accuracy.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/b/8/0b89049d-dc57-4571-aa69-cf592743a241/WMPlayer.doc |title=Windows Media Player manual |work=Download Center |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |format=DOC |date=September 1, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050607011331/http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/b/8/0b89049d-dc57-4571-aa69-cf592743a241/WMPlayer.doc |archive-date=June 7, 2005}}</ref> WMP 9 Series introduced native playback for deinterlacing for TV output. Version 9 introduced DXVA accelerated playback. Version 11 introduced improved support for DirectX accelerated decoding of WMV video ([[DirectX Video Acceleration|DXVA]] decoding). Up to version 11, it supported static lyrics and "Synchronized Lyrics", by which different lines of lyrics can be time-stamped, so that they display only at those times. Synchronized Lyrics also were accessible through the Advanced Tag Editor which was removed in version 12.

Since Windows Media Player 9 Series, the player supports crossfading, audio dynamic range (Quiet Mode) for WMA Pro and WMA Lossless, and auto volume leveling for certain media which includes volume level/gain information such as MP3 or Windows Media. The player also supports extensive configurable privacy and security settings.