Commons:Media help
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To play sound and video files
If you are looking for help creating or editing media files, see Commons:Software and Commons:Video.
File types
Wikimedia Commons uses Ogg Vorbis files for sound files and Ogg Theora for video files.
We prefer those file types to other, more common file types, because the Ogg file types are not encumbered with patents. You can learn in the following pages which software and which codecs you need to play our media files.
Choose your operating system:
