WMV PowerToy

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…

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…

Alex Zambelli comes through again! He's released important new updates to his tools to access the advanced codec settings.Both add functional support for the Macroblock Adaptive chroma search modes, which weren't previously working due to a documentation bug. So for those of you who said you didn't…