I wrote this sample code a while back to show how to validate the latest individualization version when using predelivery. Here are a few tricks that you need to do to make this work. Namely, you need to parse the “ClientInfo” XML fragment...

If you write your own DirectShow based Audio Renderer and want it to work inside WM Player 11 don’t derive it from CBaseRenderer. If you use CBaseRenderer, A/V playback in WM Player may hang. Unfortunately it doesn’t hang all the time. The...

I ran into an issue using the WM Format SDK DRM Stub Library the other day. When we were trying to decode and playback some DRM encrypted files we saw a “NS_E_DRM_LICENSE_NOTACQUIRED” error when using the “Audio Player” sample...

There are a few limitations to the supportability of the Windows Media Encoder 9 series application and SDK. Microsoft has extended support for this product for the next year or so. Hopefully if you are reading this you are aware of the next generation...