[HD-DVD Challenge] MPEG2, VC-1 and H264 with real uncompressed source movie

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Originally Posted by crypto

OK, that didn't come as I ment it. I wasn't saying ISVs didn't get support. I wanted to point out the support bias towards big business. They got PEP, SDKs and ES specs for instance and all under NDA.

The expectation is that the end users will be served by the ISVs making products which will integrate our VC-1 SDK. Many companies in the codec business operate in this way (MainConcept comes to mind).

As for independent developers not getting support... Take the DMO codecs that shipped in WMP11 and Vista for example. They are fully documented on MSDN (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb288690.aspx). Those video and audio codecs can actually be used independent of ASF and WMF SDK. One could use the MSDN documentation to write an encoder app that produces VC-1 ES streams or muxes them into MPEG-TS, MP4, AVI, etc. The free stuff is certainly out there but it does indeed take work on both sides to create good tools and applications.