Video For Windows - Version History

Version History

Release Date Version Notes
November 1992 Video for Windows 1.0 First public release. Including Microsoft's RLE and Video1 codecs.
Video for Windows 1.1 Added Cinepak codec
Video for Windows 1.1a
Video for Windows 1.1b
Video for Windows 1.1c
Video for Windows 1.1d Included Indeo 3.2 (Allegedly included source code from Apple's QuickTime for Windows)
March 1995 Video for Windows 1.1e Last version for Windows 3.1x
August 1995 Video for Windows 95 Bundled with Windows 95
July 1996 Video for Windows NT 32-bit version bundled with Windows NT 4.0
July 1996 ActiveMovie 1.0 The successor to Video for Windows. Added support for MPEG-1 and QuickTime file formats
March 1997 DirectShow 1.0 The successor to Active Movie.

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