Tag: microsoft

Microsoft’s MPEG-DASH client implementation inaccurately handles SSR flavor of streaming media

Recent additions to MPEG-DASH specification (ISO/IEC 23009-1 5th ed., AMD3; also SCTE 214-6) offer new ways to implement low-latency low-delay playback: using so called Segment Sequence Representations (SSR). MPGE-DASH manifests advertise this flavor of data by including a respective EssentialProperty. Before Shaka Player Demo added support for this technology, they ignored the respective adaptation set…

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So, what “W” is for in lstrcmpW

So I took time and submitted a request to update lstrcmpW documentation because it is inaccurate. It seemed pretty obvious that Syntax section shows W types (correct) and Parameters section shows T types trying to document the same thing. Some articles, for CRT functions specifically, solve this by documenting a set of similar functions at…

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MSDN Forums – HTTP Error 400

“Bad Request – Request Too Long” with https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums Somehow they piled up cookie data as long as 16 KB and they stopped accepting that as a HTTP header… Cleanup of browser cookies for MS sites resolves the access problem.