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This blog is dedicated to assisting fellow Software Engineers who are integrating Microsoft’s audio and video technologies into their software.
[Update: Fixed broken links] Hello again my fellow media development enthusiasts. It is that time...
Date: 05/29/2015
I posted this a while back on the MSDN Windows Phone Development forum. I think that it includes...
Date: 12/25/2014
[This is a copy of the blog post I originally wrote and published on behalf of the WSDS team. The...
Date: 10/03/2014
[This is a copy of the blog post I originally wrote and published on behalf of the WSDS team. The...
Date: 09/05/2014
One of our friends on the forum pointed out that we really don’t have any good samples on how...
Date: 06/18/2014
Hello All, I am giving a live chalk talk on October 16th for interested English speaking engineers....
Date: 10/02/2013
Please note: This post is "reprinted" from the "Managing Windows Store Developer Solutions" blog...
Date: 03/08/2013
Just a quick post to let you know that one of my friends on the forums discovered that if you are...
Date: 08/31/2012
Over the last few years I’ve worked with a number of engineers that have reported out of...
Date: 06/07/2010
The Multimedia Timer APIs (MM Timer APIs) get their high accuracy by using the Programmable...
Date: 07/02/2009
Potentially Breaking Change (IMPORTANT): Intelligent Connect adds a level of indirection on Win 7...
Date: 05/28/2009
The other day we had a major OEM report an issue with the WASAPI. In particular when they found that...
Date: 04/28/2009
We recently had an engineer report a strange exception when displaying .hta files via mshta.exe. If...
Date: 04/07/2009
A colleague of mine in Japan recently found this very interesting issue in Windows Media Player...
Date: 04/07/2009
I get this series of questions from different developers from around the world at least once a week....
Date: 04/01/2009
It looks like the 64 bit version of the Windows Media Format SDK .lib static library files are not...
Date: 03/27/2009
There are some rather interesting misunderstandings surrounding Direct Media Objects (DMO). I talked...
Date: 02/25/2009
I was talking to a DirectShow engineer the other day that was having issues rendering URLs using...
Date: 02/05/2009
When reading a stream from a location such as a media resource object, and then calling...
Date: 01/08/2009
When connecting to Windows Server 2008 through remote desktop choosing to leave the audio on the...
Date: 01/08/2009
I was in training a few weeks ago (WMS 2008 new features) and found that no matter what I did I was...
Date: 10/17/2008
Here is an interesting issue I ran across writing Windows Media Player (WMP) custom DSP plug-ins....
Date: 10/17/2008
One of the things that a lot of DRM savvy CDNs are doing is to use WM Encoder to add WM DRM to their...
Date: 10/14/2008
I wrote this sample code a while back to show how to validate the latest individualization version...
Date: 09/26/2008
I ran into an issue using the WM Format SDK DRM Stub Library the other day. When we were trying to...
Date: 09/04/2008
There are a few limitations to the supportability of the Windows Media Encoder 9 series application...
Date: 09/04/2008
I found an interesting problem when dynamically changing the input format of the WM Encoder while...
Date: 04/11/2008
When playing back a DV encoded AVI file, what does the AVI Splitter do when it detects a zero byte sample (zero byte index) from the Async File Source?
Q. When playing back a DV encoded AVI file, what does the AVI Splitter do when it detects a zero...
Date: 03/25/2008
When NTSC (29.97 interlaced) video is being fed to the VMR9 with a custom allocator/presenter, PresentImage is being called 60 times per second. You expect 30 times per second.
Q. When NTSC (29.97 interlaced) video is being fed to the VMR9 with a custom allocator/presenter,...
Date: 03/25/2008
UPDATE: The code referenced on this page is written in ASP / VB Script. I recently created a...
Date: 03/14/2008
I ran into an interesting issue with DirectMusic yesterday. When you use PlaySegmentEx to repeatedly...
Date: 03/13/2008
I found a bug recently in the prelicgen.asp page that has been causing pain for developers. They...
Date: 03/12/2008