With Windows 7 nearing its end of extended support, Microsoft has seemingly begun retiring some services for the OS. The updating of metadata is now unsupported in Windows Media Player in Windows 7.

Encoder complexity controls how hard the encoder works to encode the video. There are six levels in the v11 codecs with about an eight-fold difference in encoding speed from slowest to fastest, and ...

I came across this when I was looking at a few audio streaming options.<P>I have to get a Web Server and Audio Streaming solution running to stream audio files ...

Microsoft notes in a support document spotted by Windows Latest that users soon won't be able to view the title, genre, and artist for songs in the apps, and the apps will stop showing actors, cover ...

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 ...