WPF Imaging | Going Deep

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

Interesting idea about matching the pattern of bits to a file codec. I guess the 4 CC, magic number isn't used any more?

BryanF

Great video. Four quick questions:

(1) Are there any analogous WPF subsystems for other types of media (audio, video)?

(2) On a related note, what about vector images, such as SVG, WMF, or Visio diagrams? (SVG in particular)

(3) What's the installation policy with image codecs? The video mentioned than unknown image formats are passed to the application as a raw blob, but is there any service that will attempt to fetch codecs from the web, like in WMP today? Are there any special security issues when installing 3rd party codecs?

(4) Not for the imaging team, but will IE7 be upgraded to this new API? It would be great to future-proof against new codecs to avoid another wait between releases as with transparent PNGs.

Much thanks. Smiley

DigitalDud

You guys need to resurrect JPEG 2000. It was so much better than any image format we have today, beautiful images, great compression compared to JPEG, loss-less mode, it was awesome. Yet it never seemed to catch on, I guess because it was so complicated. Wavelets are definetly superior to cosine transforms. Smiley

Zeo
Channel 9 :)

Nice to see the avalon team back on C9.....the more Vista technology videos the beter Big Smile . Peggy is really cool. She's seems like a perfect candidate for the WM_IN series....but alas seeing her here on C9 is just as cool.

I love the phone ringing in the video. Another person getting voicemail because of C9 filming....hehehehe.

Charles nice camera work....although during parts of the video I got dizzy with all of the back and forth and round and round with moving between all of the people being focused on.

alan_burchill

What was the url for the guys blog where he post the WIC Explorer...??

Thanks

Alan

Sepcot

alan_burchill wrote:
What was the url for the guys blog where he post the WIC Explorer...??

Thanks

Alan

The WIC Explorer code is up on Robert Wlodarczyk's Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/rwlodarc/archive/2005/09/21/472338.aspx

RWlodarczyk

Indeed, that's correct. I haven't updated it for the Feb. CTP yet, but will be doing so in the next few days.

PerfectPhase
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With all this plugable codec options, is there going to be a way to select which is the default for an image type. I can imagine several different apps installing their own codecs for types like RAW. I find it a pain with DirectShow to change the priorty of filters registered for the same type, some work much better than others

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