

In build 9888, Windows Media Player provides the exact same feature lineup as in Windows 8.1 and cannot play the aforementioned formats, while the interface is identical to the one of its predecessors. Windows Media Player is one of the applications that were expected to receive tweaks in Windows 10, but up to this point, no significant update has been made available to users.

Still no Windows Media Player improvements

Microsoft, however, confirmed that these two formats would be supported in Windows 10, so expect future builds to come with several improvements in this regard. Windows 10 Technical Preview build 9888, which got leaked earlier today, was expected to come with support for these two formats, but we can now confirm that Windows Media Player still needs third-party add-ons to work with them.Īs you can see in the photo gallery below, FLAC and MKV files do not work right now and skipping the errors isn't possible, as it happened in Windows 10 Technical Preview build 9860. In addition to several new features, such as the Start menu, multiple desktops, and a notification center, Windows 10 will also bring users native support for MKV and FLAC files, two of the formats that have until now been available only through third-party apps and codecs.
