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Audio or Video Capture and Control (Blink)
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Windows Vista
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP
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The Blink test is a test for multimedia video capture devices and IEEE AV/C protocol video capture devices.
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Codec API Test
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Windows Vista
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The Codec API test is a compliance test for an ICodecAPI implementation.
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DVD Annex - Audio Test
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Windows XP
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This test verifies that a DVD decoder supports audio.
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DVD Annex - Decode Test
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Windows XP
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The DVD Annex - Decode test verifies the following DVD decode-related functionality: - X Parade
- Clock 60 Hz
- 24fps Film
- 60 Hz Video
- 7.95 Mb
- Highest
- Cycling Bit Rate
- V-bench
- Half Horizontal
- Jazz Montage
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DVD Annex - Graphics & Menu Support Test
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Windows XP
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This test examines the ability of a DVD decoder to decode menus and handle subpicture.
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DVD Annex - NTSC Playback Test
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Windows XP
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The DVD Annex - NTSC Playback test verifies that Microsoft DirectShow application programming interface (API) handling is correct and that quality is maintained during DVD playback.
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DVD Annex - PAL Playback Test
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Windows XP
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The DVD Annex - PAL Playback test verifies that Microsoft DirectShow application programming interface (API) handling is correct for PAL and that quality is maintained during DVD playback.
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DVD Annex - Sequence/Branching Test
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Windows XP
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The DVD Annex - Sequence/Branching test suite includes the following tests: - Seamless Multi-Angle
- Non-seamless Branching
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DVD Annex - Subpicture Test
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Windows XP
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The DVD Annex - Subpicture test suite verifies the functional specifications for the menu overlay subsystem.
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DVD Annex - Video Automated Test
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Windows XP
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The DVD Annex - Video Automated test suite is designed to verify that the DVD content can match various playback scenarios and match user experience expectations.
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DVD Annex - Video Format Test
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Windows XP
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The DVD Annex - Video Format test is designed to verify that DVD content handles different video formats.
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DVD Annex - Video Manual Test
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Windows XP
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The DVD Annex - Video Manual test suite is designed to verify that the DVD content can match various playback scenarios and match user experience expectations.
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MPEG-2 Decoder Test - WHQL Check
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Windows XP
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The MPEG-2 Decoder Test - WHQL Check (Configuration Validation) test verifies the Microsoft DirectDraw, Microsoft DirectShow, and Microsoft DirectSound capabilities of the system configuration. It ensures that the system is capable of playing back DVDs and verifies that the decoder is ready to work on Windows.
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Pressure Streaming Device test
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Windows Vista
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The Pressure Streaming Device test checks the streaming device and driver implementation. Some test cases check for correct error handling by devices and their drivers. If the devices or drivers incorrectly handle these test cases, the computer might stop responding (that is, "hang" or "crash").
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Tuner-Audio Video Capture Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Audio Video Capture Test (TVWLPTest) verifies that both audio and video capture must occur on the same physical device, with tightly synchronized audio/video (A/V) elementary streams--less than 100ms phase skew (which determines audio and video synchronization, failure of which causes lip-synch issues); multiple small host capture buffers (a minimum of 64 buffers and a maximum of 32 KB per buffer); and low interrupt rates (less than 500 per second).
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Tuner-Automated Graph Building Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Automated Graph Building Test verifies that a TV tuner that supports Media Center functionality implements automated capture graph building with Media Center video control.
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Tuner-Automatic Rendering Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Automatic Rendering Test verifies, in Microsoft DirectShow, that TV tuner drivers support automatic rendering between the multiplexer and encoder filters. If the capture filter and multiplexer are inserted into a DirectShow graph, a RenderPin() call on the capture pin must cause automatic filter insertion and connection.
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Tuner-BDA Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-BDA Test verifies that Digital TV tuners use the Broadcast Driver Architecture (BDA), as defined in the "Broadcast Driver Architecture Drivers" section in the Microsoft Windows Driver Kit (WDK) documentation. Devices and systems in regions with Digital TV standards that BDA does not yet support are exempt from this requirement. BDA does not yet support all Digital TV standards that are used in specific regions, such as regions that support the Integrated Services Digital Broadcast (ISDB-T) standard. In these regions, support for BDA is not required. This exemption allows for proprietary Digital TV implementations and is valid until support for the regional Digital TV standard is provided by BDA.
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Tuner-Broadcast Region Audio Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Broadcast Region Audio Test verifies that analog TV tuners implement stereo audio decoding for their intended broadcast region. Analog TV tuners must include stereo audio decoding. If SAP is available in the device's intended market, it must also be implemented.
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Tuner-Channel Change Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Channel Change Test verifies that TV tuner drivers send KSTVTunerChangeInfo packets of Tuning_Begin/Tune_End to signal channel changes correctly.
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Tuner-Content Protection Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Content Protection Test verifies that an Analog TV tuner supports content protection. Analog TV tuners must comply with the following requirements: - Pass line 20 VBI data that contains CGMS-A, as specified by IEC 61880, to Media Center.
- Pass line 21 VBI data that contains CGMS-A, as specified by EIA-608-B, to Media Center.
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Tuner-Driver Uniquely Identifies its Mediums Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Driver Uniquely Identifies its Mediums Test verifies that, for dual tuner support, tuner drivers instance the tuner’s mediums. Each device instance must specify a unique ID that is independent of the medium. The GUID remains the same across device and operating system instances and reinstalls. However, the ID field of the medium structure must differ between device instances. You can create this difference by using a global counter inside the driver and acquiring an ID for a device instance at Plug and Play (PnP) start time through a safe increment on this counter as long as it persists across device instances.
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Tuner-Exhaustive Scanning Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Exhaustive Scanning Test verifies that an Analog TV tuner supports Exhaustive Scanning APIs in PAL and SECAM regions. A TV tuner that is designed for analog tuning in PAL and SECAM regions must implement the Scanning DDI by supporting the exhaustive scanning properties that are defined in KSMedia.h. These new interfaces provide support for both hardware and software driven scanning, with hardware scanning being the preferred solution.
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Tuner-Input Sources Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Input Sources Test verifies that a TV tuner can detect signals from all implemented input sources (such as RF, composite, and S-Video). Sharing connections internally between S-Video and composite auxiliary inputs makes discrete signal detection between these two inputs impossible. The driver must correctly expose the proper mediums and media types that are related to information off the crossbar pins to determine which S-Video or composite jack matches to which S-Video jack.
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Tuner-Resource Acquisition Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Resource Acquisition Test verifies that all (capture-side) show filters in a TV graph do not acquire any singleton resources while the graph is in pause mode. This requirement allows different graphs serving different functions to be created and cached away without impacting each other. Only when the graph leave the pause state should any limited resource be acquired.
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Tuner-Signal Quality Diagnostic Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-Signal Quality Diagnostic Test verifies that a Digital TV tuner provides signal strength, signal quality, signal present, and signal lock status diagnostic information through the Broadcast Driver Architecture (BDA) interface KSPROPSETID_BdaSignalStats, as defined in the Microsoft DirectX SDK. Devices and systems in regions with Digital TV standards that BDA does not yet support are exempt from this requirement. BDA does not yet support all Digital TV standards that are used in specific regions such as regions that support the Integrated Services Digital Broadcast (ISDB-T) standard. In these regions, support for BDA is not required. This exemption allows for proprietary Digital TV implementations and is valid until BDA provides support for the regional Digital TV standard.
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Tuner-USB Serial Number Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-USB Serial Number Test verifies that a USB TV tuner implements the iSerialNumber field to ensure unique serial numbers across devices of the same model. To reuse the same physical device object (PDO) and to ensure that the device experience is unchanged whether the device is reinserted into the same port or a new port, you must store a serial number on your device. The serial number must be unique for all devices that share the same device installation identifier.
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Tuner-VBI Test
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Windows Vista
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The Tuner-VBI Test verifies that Premium Analog TV tuners support raw VBI pass through and support the capture of the following data formats: - Secondary Audio Program (SAP)
- Multichannel Television Sound (MTS)
- NICAM
- FM/FM information
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