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Release Notes for Windows Media Video 9 VCM

March 2003

This documentation provides late-breaking or other information that supplements the documentation for the Microsoft® Windows Media® Video 9 VCM.


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Minimum system requirements

The following hardware and software are required to use the Windows Media Video 9 VCM compressor:
  • Operating system
    Requirement: Microsoft® Windows® XP


  • Processor, memory, and disk space
    The system specifications required to use the Windows Media Video 9 VCM compressor are determined by the application that interfaces with the VCM driver. Refer to your software documentation for details.
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Known issues

Interlaced encoding not supported
You cannot encode interlaced video by using this release of the Windows Media 9 VCM compressor.

Advanced deinterlacer not supported
The advanced deinterlacer is not supported in this release.

EDL files are limited to 200 entries
Editing decision list files used to control variable bit rate (VBR) quality in segments of the file can have a maximum of 200 entries.

Input video in IYUV format is encoded incorrectly
When provided with input video in IYUV format, the Windows Media Video 9 VCM compressor produces blank output frames. Avoid this format.

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Legal notice

These notes support a preliminary release of Microsoft® Windows Media® Video 9 VCM.

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