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schwa · 05-12-2022, 05:16 PM

Thank you, that is an interesting historical perspective. To avoid confusion I think we will remove the options to render to .wma and .wmv files, since as you say there is no real benefit to writing to those file formats when using modern codecs, and there's also not much reason to support encoding with the windows media audio/video codecs.

So the WMF render options will be mpeg-4 video or audio, with H.264 video codec and AAC or FLAC audio codec.

Decoding (playing back files) will still work for .wma and .wmv, of course.

05-12-2022, 05:16 PM
schwa Administrator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: NY Posts: 16,519	Thank you, that is an interesting historical perspective. To avoid confusion I think we will remove the options to render to .wma and .wmv files, since as you say there is no real benefit to writing to those file formats when using modern codecs, and there's also not much reason to support encoding with the windows media audio/video codecs. So the WMF render options will be mpeg-4 video or audio, with H.264 video codec and AAC or FLAC audio codec. Decoding (playing back files) will still work for .wma and .wmv, of course.