In the first set—those encoded via the Windows Media Encoder—I saw very little, if any, benefit, to the Advanced Profile over the Main Profile. Given the ...

The Windows Media encoder UI has changed somewhat, going for a slightly cleaner look. A handy toolbar has appeared at the top, where the start, stop, and pause encoding buttons now reside. Another ...

Source shot to mini dv.<BR>Editing done in Linux with kino.<BR><BR>Resulting dv then had audio removed, cleaned and normalized with audacity.<BR><BR>Then ffmpeg muxed the video and cleaned audio back ...

I know my brand new 4600+ x2 is a great lil CPU and all, but not <i>that</i> great -- View image here: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon ...

If you haven't applied Microsoft's MS08-053 security update, now might be a good time to hit that patch button. Proof-of-concept exploit code for the vulnerability, which allows remote code execution ...

Microsoft announced Tuesday its first-ever licensing fees for use of its media delivery software on non-Windows technology, a move designed to expand its reach in the market for digital media players.

Microsoft's audio and video framework for Windows, which embraces playback, encoding and streaming. Windows Media Player is the media player that comes with every version of Windows. Windows Media ...