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 ...

With Windows 7 nearing its end of extended support, Microsoft has seemingly begun retiring some services for the OS. The updating of metadata is now unsupported in Windows Media Player in Windows 7.

Microsoft is going to remove a feature from Windows Media Player in Windows 7 and Windows Media Center in Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. In due time, metadata on these media players will no ...

Microsoft has announced it is killing off Windows legacy DRM support on Windows 8, Windows 7, Silverlight, and legacy Windows Media Player. Recently, Microsoft gave the first official on-record ...

I tried installing Nimovs codec pack but IO still didn't have any luck opening the files with Media player or the Playa (bundled with the Div-X 4 codec.) Anyone else had probs with the media player ...