Here is an interesting issue I ran across writing Windows Media Player (WMP) custom DSP plug-ins. When I am prototyping a new filter or plug-in for DirectShow or WMP, I will usually write my transform’s algorithm using a single format / media type...

I was in training a few weeks ago (WMS 2008 new features) and found that no matter what I did I was not able to get hotfix KB929182 installed on my Vista lab machine. The hotfix would act as if it installed correctly but the affected DLLs were not updated...

One of the things that a lot of DRM savvy CDNs are doing is to use WM Encoder to add WM DRM to their content without actually re-encoding. This is basically a copy operation from the input file (WMV) to an output file (WMV). The samples are never decompressed...