When you use Microsoft Windows Media Encoder (WME) 9 Series on a computer that is running Windows Vista, you may experience the following issues.
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Issue 1
When you run the Windows Media Encoder command-line script WMCmd.vbs, the script host Cscript.exe may crash.
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Issue 2
The icons that appear on the encoder toolbar and in the encoder dialog boxes are displayed by using a low bit depth. Therefore, the icons appear to have a low resolution.
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Issue 3
When you configure the encoding profile or start an encoding session, the encoder may crash.
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Download information
The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:
For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
119591 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/119591/) How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services
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File information
The English version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the
Time Zone tab in the
Date and Time item in Control Panel.
| File name | File version | File size | Date | Time | Platform |
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| Wmenc.exe | 9.0.0.3352 | 647,168 | 15-Nov-2006 | 18:57 | x86 |
| Wmenceng.dll | 9.0.0.3352 | 1,554,944 | 15-Nov-2006 | 19:12 | x86 |
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The 64-bit version of Windows Media Encoder has been updated so that you can install the encoder on the 64-bit version of Windows Vista. This updated version of the encoder includes the fixes that are described in this article. To obtain the updated version of the encoder, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
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Download the WindowsMedia9-KB929182-INTL.exe package now. (http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/3/d/03d35c05-67da-40e0-9e45-3ea0ca6329a4/windowsmedia9-kb929182-intl.exe)
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