Video Mixing Renderer Filter

This topic applies to Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional only.

In Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional, the Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) is the default video renderer. Features of the VMR include:

• True alpha blending of up to 16 input streams
• Access to the composited image before it is rendered
• A plug-in model that enables third-parties to implement custom video effects.

During graph building, the Filter Graph Manager will not use the older Video Renderer or Overlay Mixer filters, unless the application explicitly creates them and adds to the graph. The VMR is only present on Windows XP Home Edition and Windows XP Professional. It is not available through the DirectX redistributable or on previous versions of Windows.

For more information, see Using the Video Mixing Renderer.