There are whispers on the internet, originating from this forum post by a DirectShow developer. He can’t seem to find a way to make his codecs override those built into Windows. The “preferred codecs, ...

Considering Windows 7 covers almost all the codecs and containers out there, is there a need to install Shark 007 codecs? I have installed Divx Plus codecs for MKV playback in media player so I'm ...

Something we love about Windows 7 is that it has much better native codec support, like H.264 and AAC. But the price might be high: It looks like Windows 7 might ...

Windows 7 starts out on the wrong foot Although it’s too early to fully measure the impact Windows 7 will have on the third-party market, it’s already off to a bad start with its heavy-handed ...

Microsoft last week acknowledged that the VC-1 video codec has limited performance on multicore systems running Windows 7. VC-1 currently does not use all of the cores in processing video on ...

I've done a lot of googling around already but found no reliable method to generate thumbnail previews for video files of certain types. .flv, .mkv, .mp4(i think) there's more. I know that windows 7 ...

There was quite an uproar a few weeks ago when ffdshow developers started to expose the fact that 3rd party codec support was changing and Windows 7 and while many were quick to jump to conclusions ...

Microsoft last week acknowledged that the VC-1 video codec has limited performance on multicore systems running Windows 7. VC-1 currently does not use all of the cores in processing video on ...