Microsoft Windows multimedia technology

media player and media library application by Microsoft

windows Bitmap image file format family

Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced or ) is an audio file format standard for storing an audio bitstream on personal computers. The format was developed and published for the first time in 1991 by IBM and Microsoft. It is the main format used on Microsoft Windows systems for uncompressed audio. The usual bitstream encoding is the linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM) format.

file format

file format family

digital video recorder and media player created by Microsoft

programming language

graphical subsystem

file format

compressed image file format

file format

Windows icon file format

communications protocol allowing files to be transferred to or from USB-attached devices such as cameras and smartphones

DirectShow (sometimes abbreviated as DS or DShow), codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. It is the replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology. Based on the Microsoft Windows Component Object Model (COM) framework, DirectShow provides a common interface for media across various programming languages, and is an extensible, filter-based framework that can render or record media files on demand at the request of the user or developer. The DirectShow developmen

multimedia framework for Microsoft Windows

graphic driver architecture for video card drivers running Microsoft Windows versions beginning with Windows Vista

Windows audio recording program

video-playing suite introduced in Windows 3.1

video and audio player developed by Microsoft for Windows 11 and Windows 10

fonts supplied at one time by Microsoft for canonical web use

image scanner API

audio media format

Microsoft proprietary network-streaming protocol

pan-European character set specified by Microsoft

Windows software

Wikimedia list article

streaming software

API for controlling multimedia peripherals connected to a Microsoft Windows or OS/2 computer

DVR-MS (Microsoft Digital Video Recording) is a proprietary video and audio file container format, developed by Microsoft used for storing TV content recorded by Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

application programming interface (API) for multimedia playback

technologies used to enforce digital rights management protections on content

codec framework in Windows Vista

computer program

PlayReady is a media file copy prevention technology from Microsoft that includes encryption, output prevention and digital rights management (DRM). It was announced in February 2008.