DSP Plug-in Developer Overview
[The feature associated with this page, Windows Media Player SDK, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer. MediaPlayer has been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer instead of Windows Media Player SDK, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]
From the developer's perspective, DSP plug-ins are software programs that receive audio or video data provided by Windows Media Player just before the rendering stage, then process that data and return the data to Windows Media Player for rendering.
The following sections provide general information about Windows Media Player DSP plug-ins:
- DSP Plug-in Packaging
- Connecting to Windows Media Player
- Data Input and Output
- Format Negotiation
- Providing a User Interface
- DSP Plug-in Wizard
- Required Interfaces
- Registering DSP Plug-ins
- Updating Existing DSP Plug-ins
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