VC-1 Encoder SDK

The essential Dan Rayburn had a good blog post asking we, Adobe, and the industry overall agree on a definition for HD Video on the web.I gave a quick response in the comments that I wanted to expand into a proposed definition.Resolution and frame rateThe infamous Table 3 of the ATSC specification…

Once I’ve answered the same question in three different emails, I figure it’s time to blog it. By that metric, I should have blogged this about 17 times over by now!Is VC-1 the same as Windows Media Video 9?Yes, the big picture: VC-1 is the SMPTE standardized version (SMPTE 421M) of Windows Media…

Oh, I’m a bad, bad blogger. The Expression Encoder Service Pack 1 has been out for MONTHS, and and it’s cool enough that I haven’t had the time to do it full justice. Oh well, better short than nothing; I’ll just start off with the biggest new feature: multibitrate encoding, including support for…

Windows 7 Beta is out today. It’s free to participate in, so if you’re interested, please check it out and give us feedback.To whet the appetites of my compressionist friends, one much-requested new feature in the Format SDK .dll in Windows 7: It now can go up to 8-way threading, compared to the…

As you may recall, we released the VC-1 Encoder SDK Professional as as free download. That included a very basic command-line encoder along the lines of Alex Zambelli’s WMCmd.vbs, but with much more limited input support and no preprocessing.A fellow called Kurtnoise13 jumped on it on the Doom9…

I’ve had a bunch of emails lately from people still using Windows Media Encoder for a variety of reasons. A surprising number of people seem to be using ancient versions of actual encoder .dll files, so I figured it was time for one-last roundup post for best practices with WME and the old Format…

One of the best parts of my job at Microsoft is when I can put aside the video strategy stuff and do some real-world hands-on video compression encoding for a project. My friends on the IIS team asked me to encode their new tutorials for Silverlight playback, and I thought it was a great project to…