Microsoft Windows Media Resource Kit

Tricia Gill, Bill Birney, and the Microsoft Windows Media Team

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Copyright 2003 by Microsoft Corporation

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gill, Tricia.
Microsoft Windows Media Resource Kit / members of the Microsoft
Windows Media Team, Tricia Gill, Bill Birney.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-7356-1807-0
1. Interactive multimedia. 2. Microsoft Windows (Computer file).
I. Birney, Bill, 1950- II. Title.

QA76.76.I59G53 2003
006.7—dc21 2003043649

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Body Part No. X08-95161

To Gordon, for your continuous encouragement
and complete confidence in me.
–Tricia

To Joanne, Rachel, and Pat, for being there
and understanding.
–Bill

Bill Birney

Bill has been creating content for more than 35 years. He started out in radio as a disc jockey, then gained broad experience in many fields, including television, music, audio production, film, corporate communications, and software. During his career, he has worked as a scriptwriter, composer, producer, director, video editor, sound designer, and creative director. Bill was a developmental editor and co-author of the book Inside Windows Media (Que, 1999), and was most recently co-author of the Windows Movie Maker Handbook (Microsoft Press, 2000).

Tricia Gill

Tricia began her career as a newspaper reporter before moving into technical communication. Over the past 18 years, she has written about a range of topics including
hydroelectric power plants, pet food drives, passenger jets, public school programs, and computer software. While at Microsoft, Tricia has written online Help for Microsoft Site Server and Windows Media Encoder, assisted with the user interface design of Microsoft Commerce Server, and written numerous Web articles and white papers about Windows Media Technologies.