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The MME API or the Windows Multimedia API (also known as WinMM) was the first universal and standardized Windows audio API. Wave sound events played in Windows (up to Windows XP) and MIDI I/O use MME. The devices listed in the Multimedia/Sounds and Audio control panel applet represent the MME API of the sound card driver.
The first, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, was intended for IA-64 systems; as IA-64 usage declined on workstations in favor of AMD's x86-64 architecture, the Itanium edition was discontinued in January 2005. [57] A new 64-bit edition supporting the x86-64 architecture, called Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, was released in April 2005. [58]
Connection ports include USB, Firewire, 3.5 mm audio output, 3.5 mm audio input, S-Video output, VGA output, and parallel. [1] One port that was special to this series (as well as other HP laptops of the time) is the proprietary expansion port for HP's Expansion Dock that allows an extra array of ports when the laptop is docked.
DirectSound is a deprecated software component of the Microsoft DirectX library for the Windows operating system, superseded by XAudio2.It provides a low-latency interface to sound card drivers written for Windows 95 through Windows XP and can handle the mixing and recording of multiple audio streams.
Windows XP Tablet PC Edition screenshot, showing a docked tip from Tablet PC Edition 2005 and Firefox 43.0. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition utilizes the Ink object as a means of data input and storage. This is a data type created as part of the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition API that allows users to manipulate and process handwritten data, including ...
In 2009, Microsoft released Windows Virtual PC, which is only compatible with Windows 7 hosts, [a] and is the technical foundation for the latter's Windows XP Mode. Windows Virtual PC does not officially support MS-DOS or operating systems older than Windows XP Professional SP3 as guests. [3] Virtual PC was discontinued in 2011 in favour of ...
The Covox Speech Thing is an external digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that plugs into the parallel printer port of a PC.It converts 8-bit digital sound using a simple R-2R resistor ladder into an analog signal output.
Before Windows 7, Sound Recorder could save the recorded audio in waveform audio (.wav) container files.Sound Recorder could also open and play existing .wav files. To successfully open compressed .wav files in Sound Recorder, the audio codec used by the file must be installed in the Audio Compression Manager (ACM); Windows installations dating back to at least Windows 95 came with a selection ...