Windows Media Player Blazing Performance and Excellent Quality Forrest Stroud
Blazing Performance and Excellent Quality
The player is based on Microsoft DirectX and specifically utilizes DirectShow. DirectShow is the media-streaming architecture for Windows that enables the delivery of the highest possible performance for multimedia streamed content. It is also the single-most important feature of many in Media Player that render NetShow obsolete.
DirectShow support and additional improvements allow Media Player to put NetShow 2.0 and most of the competition to shame in terms of performance and audio/video quality. But performance and quality are only two of the areas that Media Player excels in; perhaps even more critical is the player's outstanding functionality and versatility.
