This question comes up frequently so I’ve listed them below for reference. If you want more information about specific containers, and supported scenarios please visit the Supported Media Codecs for Windows Phone on MSDN.

Please note that this information contains pre-release information and is subject to change in future releases.

Audio

  • WAV, MP3, WMA, AAC-LC, HE-AAC v1, HE-AAC v2, AMR-NB

Video

  • WMV (VC1) Simple, Main and Advanced Profiles
  • MPEG-4 Part 2 – Simple
  • MPEG-4 Part 10 (MPEG-4 AVC, H.264) Level 3.0 – Baseline Profile
  • MPEG-4 Part 10 (MPEG-4 AVC, H.264) Level 3.0 – Main Profile
  • MPEG-4 Part 10 (MPEG-4 AVC, H.264) Level 3.0 - High Profile
  • H.263

Images

  • JPEG, PNG, GIF (both GIF87a and GIF89a), BMP, TIF