One of the first was the RealPlayer, followed by Microsoft's
ActiveMovie and Apple's QuickTime.
When combined with Cirrus Logic's exceptional Crystal PCI audio accelerators and driver support, the CS4294 can produce incredibly accurate 3D-positional sound and Dolby AC-3 under Microsoft's DirectSound, DirectSound3D and
ActiveMovie. These advanced features promises to be the hallmark of tomorrow's PCs.
If you use the Windows Media Player or
ActiveMovie, you can set the size of the window by going to Control Panel, Multimedia, Video.
These included "misleading error messages" and "technical bypasses," with Windows choosing Microsoft
ActiveMovie over QuickTime.
ActiveMovie takes care of audio and video on the web while DirectX 5.0 (6.0 is to be launched later this year) improves multimedia and gaming with support for the Accelerated Graphics Port and MMX.
These stations use Microsoft's NetShow (formerly known as
ActiveMovie) format, which is just the packaging for the delivery of MP3 streams.
The pavilion will feature Windows 95-compatible technology and developer tools, as well as two game and multim-edia initiatives from Microsoft: Direct 3D and
ActiveMovie.
This networked multimedia application supports DirecTX and
ActiveMovie for software playback of MPEG, AVI, and Quicktime files.
Currently, only a handful of applications are already optimized for MMX -- Microsoft's DirectX drivers and
ActiveMovie Player among them.
The key to the success of Internet Explorer 3.0--beyond the overall attractive and sophisticated design of the interface--is the
ActiveMovie component.
After its successful decompression software, MPEG Arcade Game Player, it has now come out with an inexpensive accelerator chip--the MX501--that boosts video performance under Microsoft's new video subsystem,
ActiveMovie.
has announced that leading multimedia technology companies are working with the company in an open review process to support the Microsoft
ActiveMovie Streaming Format (.asf or ASF), a new data-independent format for storing and transmitting multimedia content for the Internet and corporate networks.