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Old 10th January 2019, 18:53   #36  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by SeeMoreDigital View Post
Nice informative post Ben.

Did Microsoft ever officially announce that development for VC-1 (or more of their AV formats) had ceased or did it just quietly fizzle out?
I don’t recall any official announcement. There were still minor improvements they went into Windows 7 and the last version of Expression Encoder, which were not long before I left the company. Bug and security fixes at least would have been done as needed through now.

The Pro SDK and Expression Encoder versions were better than the Windows versions, so anyone doing professional VC-1 would probably have been using those.

The Smooth Streaming variable bitrate, GOP duration, and frame size implementation was remarkably competitive for long after it had been abandoned, especially where software decode was important. It had been surpassed now, but it held its own against H.264 CBR fixed GOP in Flash back in 2012.
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