Media Player for different file formats

I wonder if you could help me.
I run a media website. I allow users to download videos and
audios.
90% of my videos are in .WMV and some are in .RM and .AVI
formats.
My audios are in .MP3, .RM and .WMA formats.
Now, I want the users to view and listen to these
videos/audios before they download them. Can you tell me what I
need to achieve this?
I think, I need a media player that I can include in my
webpages, and provide it the link to each different file on my
server. Which media player is able to play all of the above
formats?
Waiting for the reply.
Thanks

AIFF would be uncompressed, so clearly the best quality, but the file sizes would be huge. 80 minuntes = 700MB, so basically a 2GB Nano might be able to hold two albums if stored in AIFF format. So I am thinking, you don't really want that one.
AAC format is supposed to give better quality for the same bit rate as MP3. In other words a 128kbps second AAC is claimed by Apple to be at least as good as a 160 MP3. So theoretically, your 192kbps MP3s might be the same quality as 160 AAC files, so going to AAC at 160 would give you smaller file sizes without loss of quality.
However I don't think you would realize that if you converted your MP3 files directly to AAC files. I think it would only truly work if you started with the original CDs again and reimported them to AAC files.
Me, I just stick with 192 MP3s and am happy. And my files are more universal than AAC files so I can put them on a CD that will play on my Denon stereo CD changer or in my wife's car CD changer or my daughter's old portable CD player, all three of which support MP3 files and none of them support AAC.
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