Have you ever announced someone's blog?

Well now I have :)

The new Expression Encoder blog.
http://blogs.msdn.com/expressionencoder/

WMF c# Samples

There are excellent c# Windows Media Format examples, and this page is one of them.
http://icardoso.free.fr/projects/ManWMFSaples.php

I hate C++

I just hate it.
It is bljaaaahhhh. Everything editor, compiler, look & smell...
Is is ugly looking beast, in a bad way.

And I hate all the guys that love it, and all the guys that created it or still developing it.

Why?
Have you ever tried to work in it? Have you ever bumped into wall of unknown issue, error, compiling failure, registering failure, context failure, etc without any ANY sense, sometimes without any code change?

Well I have, and I hate it.

VC-1 Encoder SDK

Download link
So finally here it is, and it is free.

Some highlights:

• Supports VC-1 Codec
• Natively supports dividing of VC-1 stream from ASF container, enabling push of VC-1 into MPEG-2 TS for example.

I think that this is more than enough for step up, especially for very affordable price - Free!

Graphedit on steroids

http://www.thedeemon.com/

Graph Edit Plus is the tool for graphedit junkies and others who need to use it on daily basis. More control, more comfort, more flexibility, nicer interface and one pretty unique feature, ability to export functional C++ micro applications that create any graph from code.

Of course there is complete compatibility on grf files, interface that is extension without too much revolution of standard graphedit, basically this is really good tool.

And of course check out other products from this nice little company.

Cheers....

HD Photo InDepth...

So, you are interested into HD Photo.
Well, this link is The place to be.

http://blogs.msdn.com/billcrow/default.aspx

Tutorial: Using Windows Media Registry Keys

Ben Waggoner Tutorial
http://www.streamingmedia.com/article.asp?id=9456&page=1&c=4

or official documentation
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/howto/articles/codecadvancedsettings.aspx

Must read documents...