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Microsoft Media Foundation

Microsoft Media Foundation enables the development of applications and components for using digital media on Windows Vista and later.

Media Foundation is the next generation multimedia platform for Windows that enables developers, consumers, and content providers to embrace the new wave of premium content with enhanced robustness, unparalleled quality, and seamless interoperability.

This documentation contains the following sections:

What's New for Media Foundation Describes what has changed in the latest version of Media Foundation.
About Media Foundation Lists the headers and libraries you will need, and describes the tools and code samples that are provided to make Media Foundation development easier.
Media Foundation Programming Guide Describes how to accomplish specific tasks in Media Foundation.
Media Foundation SDK Samples Describes the code samples for Media Foundation provided in the Windows SDK.
Media Foundation Programming Reference Contains reference topics for all of the Media Foundation APIs.

 

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Build date: 9/8/2011

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Where is the SDk then?
I have the same issue. I neede the SDk.

[tfl] I think the SDK is loaded when you install the Windows SDK for Windows 7 - not sure if there is a separate SDK for Media Foundation.
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Is that a real project?
I am unable to find the actual SDK, does it exist.  It is not in the download section, perhaps it is called something other than "Microsoft Media Foundation"?
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Managed support (was: So hard to navigate)
Media Foundation is a native COM/Win32 API. As such, there is no official support for using Media Foundation in managed code. You might try the Silverlight or WPF media features. Also, you might look at this sample: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mf/archive/2010/02/18/mfmanagedencode.aspx


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Why Media Foundation can't be used in VB.NET, it's a programing language like c/c++, so why vb.net doesn't support Media Foundation? Now I've to learn c++ well to work with it, what a depresseion!
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