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Media Foundation

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Media Foundation

Summary

Media Foundation is a multimedia framework[1]. It draws 33 Wikipedia views per month (multimedia_framework category, ranking #4 of 14).[2]

Key Facts

  • Media Foundation's instance of is recorded as multimedia framework[3].
  • Media Foundation's based on is recorded as Component Object Model[4].
  • Media Foundation's follows is recorded as Q962763[5].
  • Media Foundation's follows is recorded as Audio Compression Manager[6].
  • Media Foundation's follows is recorded as Video for Windows[7].
  • Media Foundation's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0fx1vr[8].
  • Media Foundation's official website is recorded as https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/medfound/microsoft-media-foundation-sdk[9].
  • Media Foundation's replaces is recorded as Q962763[10].
  • Media Foundation's replaces is recorded as Windows Media[11].
  • Media Foundation's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/ms-media-foundation[12].

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Adaptations and Inspiration

Predecessors include Q962763[5], Audio Compression Manager[6], and Video for Windows[7].

Why It Matters

Media Foundation draws 33 Wikipedia views per month (multimedia_framework category, ranking #4 of 14).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13]

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved . msdn.microsoft.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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