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4/8/2010

These media technologies provide support for encoded multimedia data such as Windows Media Audio, Windows Media Video, DVD-Video, MP3, and MPEG-1.

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Digital Rights Management for Windows Mobile Devices

Describes how to use digital rights management.

Four-Character Codes (FOURCC)

Provide information on the codes used to identify media formats.

Security with Encoded Media

Security considerations for media rich applications.

DirectShow

Provides OS design, application development, and reference information for the multimedia framework.