Re: Windows Media Player 9 Professional???

From: Corey Gouker [MVP] (coreyg_at_mvps.org)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 14:33:44 -0700

WM Audio Professional usually goes hand in hand with WMV HD. WMA Pro
normally provides higher quality audio that you'd expect from DVD audio and
such, it also provides 5.1 capabilities in WMA. If you WMP9 you can play WMA
Pro just fine. Here's some info about WMV HD.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/content_provider/film/HDVideo.aspx

Here are some audio showcases as well which demonstrate the 5.1 WMA Pro.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/domorewith/sursoshowcase.aspx

WMA Pro isn't an addition to WMP itself it's simply apart of the WM Codec's. 

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"DWG" <DWG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:B84C70E7-963C-482B-9BBE-3B9DEA9F99D1@microsoft.com...
>I downloaded some high def. video in wmv and it actually played back on my 
>newest machine (3.2 ghz P4, fast graphics and a couple of gig of ram).  It 
>was impressive in quality and compactness and even more so that it plays 
>back smoothly. I'd really like to try play with it and see how it works.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1.  What is Windows Media Player 9 Professional?  Is it another program? 
> Or an extension that is activated like Quicktime Pro when you buy a key? 
> Or is it just a collection of encoders, decoders and codecs?  I see it 
> referred to with interest, but can't actually find it...
>
> 2.  Is there a good tutorial on the new Windows media suite?  I'd like to 
> try encoding some animated footage at NTSC resolution, 720p and 1080i, but 
> when I tried with the encoder download on Win2000, all I got was a raft of 
> error messages.  I don't know if I'm missing some parts in my install, 
> missing some setting on a menu, violating format restrictions or whatever. 
> Probably something dumb, so a tutorial or some practical examples would 
> really help.
>
> 3.  When I download the WMP9 codec's, After Effects seems to render it 
> fine, but then Media player won't play it back reporting "unknown error."
>
>

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