{"id":1012,"date":"2008-10-29T22:54:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T21:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1012-windows-7-media-aac-yes-flac-no.html"},"modified":"2008-10-29T22:54:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T21:54:11","slug":"windows-7-media-aac-yes-flac-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1012-windows-7-media-aac-yes-flac-no.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 7 media: AAC yes, FLAC no"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/larryosterman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Osterman<\/a> is here at PDC 2008 and I took the opportunity to ask a couple of questions about media in Windows 7. Windows Media Player is getting built-in support for AAC (as used in iTunes &#8211; but not when DRM-protected) and H.264 &#8211; but not ALAC (Apple lossless) or FLAC (open-source lossless). What about DRM in Windows 7, any change to the Protected Media Path? No, he told me; adding how frustrated he was by the common supposition that DRM somehow slows everything down in Vista. His line is that Microsoft supports DRM content, but does not in any way impose it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8e807a1a-9e11-4ee9-a1fd-5fd40bfb957a\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/windows%20media%20player\" rel=\"tag\">windows media player<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/pdc%202008\" rel=\"tag\">pdc 2008<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/windows%207\" rel=\"tag\">windows 7<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/flac\" rel=\"tag\">flac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/alac\" rel=\"tag\">alac<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/vista\" rel=\"tag\">vista<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/drm\" rel=\"tag\">drm<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Larry Osterman is here at PDC 2008 and I took the opportunity to ask a couple of questions about media in Windows 7. Windows Media Player is getting built-in support for AAC (as used in iTunes &#8211; but not when DRM-protected) and H.264 &#8211; but not ALAC (Apple lossless) or FLAC (open-source lossless). What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/1012-windows-7-media-aac-yes-flac-no.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Windows 7 media: AAC yes, FLAC no<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58,93,97,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-multimedia","category-vista","category-windows","category-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}