Vista Codec Package 4.2.2
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented.
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17.1.2007 Vista Codec Package 4.6.6
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented. It does not contain a media player.
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21.5.2008 Vista Codec Package 4.7.0
Codecs have been a problem for most users at one time or another. This is because there has never been an 'out of the box' working solution that the average computer user could install and just have everything work properly from the beginning.
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6.7.2008 Vista Codec Package 4.7.3
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter.
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18.8.2008 Vista Codec Package 5.0.1
With Vista Codec Package installed, you won't need to install any other codec or filter. Many user suggested default settings are implemented.
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11.11.2008 Microsoft VC-1 Codec Now a Standard
The VC-1 video codec proposed and developed by Microsoft was officially released by the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers on Monday, paving the way for the technology to be used by next-generation DVDs. Microsoft submitted the Windows Media Video 9-based codec for standardization in September 2003.
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4.4.2006 Advanced Vista Codec Package 4.1.9
With Advanced Vista Codec Package installed, you shouldn't need to install any other codec or filter.
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25.11.2006 Codec Pack for Windows XP & Vista
Thanks to marct for the great idea, to have all Codec Pack for XP & Vista on one place.
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1.4.2007Microsoft VC-1 Codec Now a
Standard
The VC-1 video codec proposed
and developed by Microsoft was
officially released by the
Society of Motion Picture and
Television Engineers on
Monday, paving the way for the
technology to be used by
next-generation DVDs.
Microsoft submitted the
Windows Media Video 9-based
codec for standardization in
September 2003...
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04.04.2006The DivX codec makes a play for set-top boxes
The little codec that could, DivX, announced a series of partnerships today that will use the protocol in set-top boxes for Internet Protocol
Television (IPTV)...
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08.01.2008MPEG-2 Patent Holder, Licensing Agent in High-Def Codec Dispute
The principal licensing agent for MPEG codec technology, MPEG LA, has sued Alcatel-Lucent in Delaware court. Its claim is that Alcatel didn't have
the right to absorb Lucent's IP portfolio - which included patents on MPEG-2 technology - into a new and separate trust, after Lucent had already
made a commitment to provide that technology through MPEG LA...
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07.11.2007New WMV PowerToy & registry key documentation
The birth of the VC-1 Encoder SDKs will reduce the need for these over the next few months, but Alex has updated his WMV PowerToy and also revised our
documentation about the registry key options.
Here's the
new PowerToy. It mainly removes a few options that we determined weren't in the Format SDK 11 implementation, particularly
adaptive chroma search and default adaptive deadzone.
And here's the new, hopefully final
registry key documentation,
reflecting the above and other useful tidbits we've learned.
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09.09.2007Zune HD Specification sheet revealed, disappointment ensues
Microsoft has made available the specification sheet for the Zune HD, which explains the formats that the device can read and the approximated battery
life of the device. The battery life for listening to music seems adequate but the battery life for watching videos seems very low. The Zune HD will
be able to read the following video formats: "Windows Media Video (WMV) (.wmv) – Main and Simple Profile, CBR or VBR, up to 3.0 Mbps peak video
bit rate; 720 pixels x 480 pixels up to 30 frames per second (or 720 pixels x 576 pixels up to 25 frames per second). Zune software will transcode HD
WMV files at device sync.
Read full story.....
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14.08.2009Skype unfurls a royalty-free SILK codec
Well-received wideband tech could turn up anywhere
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05.03.2009DirectX Video Acceleration Specification for Windows Media Video Decoding
Defines extensions to DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) to support decoding of Windows Media Video (WMV) 8, WMV 9, and SMPTE VC-1.
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15.12.2007Solar powered charging bags, what will they think of next?
Have you ever been sitting the park on a beautiful afternoon and thought to yourself, "Gosh, this is perfect but what would really make today
complete is if I could spend all afternoon here in the sun AND be on my laptop the entire time." Of COURSE you have! And now you can. Not only do
these bags come with solar LED panels that fuel up the batteries inside- to charge your every accessory, but they're stylish accessories as
well.
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23.01.2008Using MediaCoder to transcode videos for Zune
The Zune is great for watching movies, TV shows and YouTube clips of cute kittens, but sometimes it can take a good chunk of time and a bit of magic
getting your videos ready and loaded on the Zune. Theres nothing worse than having spent a good 30 minutes transcoding an axxo-ripped XVID movie (yes
you know what Im talking about) into WMV, added to the Zune library for it to spend another 30 minutes transcoding it again because it wasnt the
particular type of WMV it was fond of.
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23.06.2008DivX support, classic Xbox games coming in Fall Dashboard Update
On December 4. Microsoft will unleash the 2007 Fall Dashboard Update on the throngs of waiting Xbox 360 users. While the company has previously
announced many of the features of this new update, a new one has just slipped out: DivX and Xvid support.
In perhaps the biggest
news for tech-minded gamers, codec support for video files will be widened, with Joystiq reporting that this will include MPEG-4 Part 2 video codec
support. "What that basically means is that our users should find that most of their DivX and Xvid files will work because they're under that
umbrella of the MPEG-4 Part 2 codec," Microsoft's Aaron Greenburg
told the site. DivX
and Xvid support has long been a requested feature from people who would like to use their Xbox 360 as a media hub, making this very welcome news.
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30.11.2007Hackers Exploit Bhutto Assassination
Within hours of yesterday's assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, malware makers exploited the breaking news to dupe
users into downloading attack code, security researchers said Friday. Searches for news about Bhutto's killing and the ensuing chaos in Pakistan
listed sites pimping a bogus video coder/decoder (codec), said analysts at McAfee Inc., Symantec Corp. and WebSense Inc. For instance, WebSense found
such a site simply by using "benazir" to search on Google. Meanwhile, McAfee quickly located 10 sites hosted on Blogger.com, Google Inc.'s blog
service, that were spreading the fake codec.
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30.12.2007Windows Server 2008 Unleashed Promo
Thanks to dhan for posting about this in our
Back Page News
section. After the
embarrassing
Vista SP1 promo posted here earlier this week, it seems the sales team have got their act together and released a really cool promo for Windows
Server 2008, called "Windows Server 2008 Unleashed".
It wouldn't take much to top the "
Rockin' our Vista SP1 sales" video, but we here at Neowin think this is
definitely a great effort, where a lot of thought went into displaying the power of Microsoft's' latest Server System.
Check it out
below..
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18.04.2008Mac Porn Surfers Subject to QT Flaw
Attackers are going after Macintosh computer users who are visiting pornographic web sites, claiming to offer a plug-in that installs a video codec
necessary to play the movie files within QuickTime...
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01.11.2007Zune Online as a Social Networking Site
Channel 10 has posted a short 5 minute video interview with one of the member's of the Zune Team, detailing what exactly Robbie Bach was talking
about during the Bill Gates keynote when he announced the Zune launch in Canada in Spring 2008. The Canadian offering this spring will first include
Zune players (including Zune Originals), Zune software and Zune Social, with the Zune Marketplace online store coming later this year. In the clip,
Channel 10's Laura Foy finds out about the new features on Zune marketplace and how much emphasis is being placed on perfecting Zune Online as a
social networking site.
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12.01.2008The history and future of DivX
Davis Freeberg
over at
Zatz Not Funny provides some great analysis on the history and future strategy of DivX. On the company's historical success, Freeberg notes the
importance of creating an eco-system around the DivX codec, both in terms of becoming the preferred format for "grey" content on P2P networks, but
also the way in which the company reached out to consumer electronics manufacturers DVD players, media streamers, PMPs, and more recently
Sony’s PS3 through its DivX certification program. The result is that DivX has become
the consumer facing brand for MPEG4, despite
rival offerings from Apple and Microsoft, for example.
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10.05.2008Microsoft To Release Silverlight 2 In Late Summer
Microsoft has been working like gangbusters to create the perception that its cross-platform multimedia runtime Silverlight is a viable alternative to
Adobe's Flash, and the vendor will soon put updated tools in the hands of Silverlight developers. In a Thursday blog post, Microsoft developer
Ashish Thapliyal said Microsoft is "targeting late Summer" for its release of Silverlight 2.0, which is currently in its first beta release.
Silverlight 2.0 supports VC-1, WMV, MP3 and WMA content, but Microsoft has no plans to support the Flash video (.flv), used by Youtube and
many other Websites, said Thapliyal. Microsoft's rationale here is to avoid paying licensing fees and to keep the Silverlight download file size
as small as possible, he added.
"Silverlight isn't designed with an extensible codec model in mind, so there is no date/version
announced for this," wrote Thapliyal. A second Silverlight 2.0 beta is due in May, and this version will be very similar to the final release,
according to Thapliyal. He said no details are available about the roadmap for Silverlight for mobile, or Silverlight v.Next, also known as
Silverlight 3.
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07.04.2008DivX 6.4
DivX is a package that
includes all the DivX codec,
player, utilities, and
documentation that you need to
play DivX files. DivX codec is
based on the MPEG-4
compression standard. This
codec can reduce an MPEG-2
video (DVD format) to ten
percent of its original size.
DivX is a digital video
compression technology based
on the ISO MPEG-4 standard.
New Features
Include:
- support
for 1080HD
encoding
- faster
multipass
encoding
- better
compression when using the
internal
resize
- adaptive noise
reduction
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04.10.2006Windows Server 2008 screencast - Virtualization 10 Minute Tour
Windows Server 2008 is going to ship it's next public release candidate very soon. Inside that release will be a CTP of Windows Server
virtualization (WSv). WSv will be setting the stage for a whole new wave of technologies so with that in mind, I thought I'd give you a quick peek
at the product via a screencast video I created.
Hypervisor
I love that name. It's catchy and kewl. It
sounds like a supervisor for hyper space or something. It does of course refer to the new thin layer that is installed on Windows Server 2008 also
know at the virtualization parent partition. It's also a a term used industry wide so when you hear the term, it doesn't just refer to the
Microsoft implementation.
Our hypervisor, code named "Viridian", is an installable Windows Server 2008 role. After
installation of this role, you can start installing one or more child partitions in which to run your virtualization workloads. Installation of those
virtual machines is fairly straight forward although there are some things you need to be aware of.
Take a look at the screencast
and go on a tour of Windows Server virtualization (WSv). The video is a little over ten minutes in length and I tried to hit some of the key areas so
you can get a quick technical overview of the product. If you want to save this local and review it offline, please right mouse click the second link
and "SAVE AS".
- Streaming:
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14.09.2007Facebook worm still spreading
Early in August, security firms noticed a worm spreading on Facebook through wall posts, claiming to contain a video requiring a new codec to be
installed. Variants of this worm are now being spotted on a weekly basis...
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25.08.2008Media player users beware: move vulns ahead
Security researchers are warning that popular media players offered by Microsoft and AOL are vulnerable to attacks that can completely compromise a
user's PC.
Attack code has already been released for the bug, which has been confirmed in a codec used by older versions of
Windows Media Player, made by Microsoft, and in AOL's Winamp. A Symantec researcher has warned that users of other players may also be at risk
because the vulnerability itself resides in a commonly used MP4 codec produced by a company called 3ivx Technologies.
"The
exploit works by supplying victims with a maliciously formed MP4 file," Raymond Ball wrote for Symantec's
DeepSight Threat Management System. "When a victim unknowingly clicks a link
that appears safe, the MP4 content is delivered, causing the exploit to run."
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