To determine the format in which an existing video clip was authored
Windows 98 video services provide the resources for capturing video clips, compressing the content, and controlling playback.
Displaying digital video involves moving and processing huge streams of data continuously and efficiently. In earlier versions of Windows, the process of displaying digital video relied on a series of 16-bit systems — from reading data from the disk, to decompressing the video data, to displaying it on the screen. With the Windows 98 32-bit architecture, users can display bigger, smoother, and more colorful digital video, without adding any hardware.
Windows 98 multimedia is fully compatible with 16-bit multimedia titles. Testing has shown that the 32-bit improvements in file access speed and stream handling result in performance gains for 16-bit multimedia applications and especially for the new generation of 32-bit applications developed for Windows 98.
To determine the format in which an existing video clip was authored
For more information about playing video clips, see Help.