WMP On Win95 (86Box, Gravis Ultrasound)
Windows 95 had an updated version of WMP as well. However, there wasn't much to say in all honesty. It was mostly the same media player that was bundled with Windows 3.1, except that it was now running as an 32-bit application using the Windows 95 GUI controls. However, while the general user interface was the same, Windows 95 bundled more codecs than previously before. Windows 3.1 originally didn't have any codecs at all. However, Microsoft released VFW (Video for Windows) which used the MSVideo1 codec. Third-party codecs/players included Apple's QuickTime version 2 and various MPEG codecs provided by various software houses. Windows NT 3.5 included both the Cinepack Radius and Intel Indeo codec. These codecs would be bundled with Windows 95, along with MPEG video support. MPEG videos would play on Win95 using the ActiveMovie video player. The video shown playing under WMP was originally rendered on KDEenlive on Windows 10 as an MP4 at 1080HD 60FPS. From there, the video was converted into an XVID AVI that could be opened under Virtualdub on the host. The video was then converted again, this time in the Cinepack AVI, from where it was copied onto an VMware Player VM running Windows NT 4.0 with SP6 installed. The VFW SDK was installed. The SDK itself is for 16-bit Windows 3.1, but has no issue running under Windows NT 4.0. The Cinepack video was opened under the VidEdit Program included in the SDK and re-encoded as in the Intel Indeo 3.2 format. The resolution of the final video was 512 by 340 pixels. None of the audio codecs for Windows 95 handle audio encoded as an MP3 stream. When the video was converted from an MP4 to an XVID, I did it using the Free Audio Video Pack 2.22 (GUI Frontend for FFMPEG) with the XVID AVI using an 16-bit PCM stream. 86Box is emulating a Gateway 2000 Multimedia PC with a i430VX Tigereye motherboard, Intel Pentium Processor running at 75MHz, 16MB's of RAM, AMD PC-net-ISA network adapter, S3 Trio 64 SVGA Video Adapter running at the following screen resolution: 800 by 600, 16-bit (65,536 Colors) depth. The configuration has a emulated Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 and has the Windows 95 Gateway 2000 OEM version installed. Songs Used: Higher Octane By Vans In Japan YouTube Audio Library MP3 (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 WinAMP (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp Software Used: Recorded With OBS Studio Composed In Kdenlive Hardware Used: PC equipped with a AMD FX-4300 Quad-Core Processor running at 3.8GHz Nvidia GTX 950 GPU
Windows 95 had an updated version of WMP as well. However, there wasn't much to say in all honesty. It was mostly the same media player that was bundled with Windows 3.1, except that it was now running as an 32-bit application using the Windows 95 GUI controls. However, while the general user interface was the same, Windows 95 bundled more codecs than previously before. Windows 3.1 originally didn't have any codecs at all. However, Microsoft released VFW (Video for Windows) which used the MSVideo1 codec. Third-party codecs/players included Apple's QuickTime version 2 and various MPEG codecs provided by various software houses. Windows NT 3.5 included both the Cinepack Radius and Intel Indeo codec. These codecs would be bundled with Windows 95, along with MPEG video support. MPEG videos would play on Win95 using the ActiveMovie video player. The video shown playing under WMP was originally rendered on KDEenlive on Windows 10 as an MP4 at 1080HD 60FPS. From there, the video was converted into an XVID AVI that could be opened under Virtualdub on the host. The video was then converted again, this time in the Cinepack AVI, from where it was copied onto an VMware Player VM running Windows NT 4.0 with SP6 installed. The VFW SDK was installed. The SDK itself is for 16-bit Windows 3.1, but has no issue running under Windows NT 4.0. The Cinepack video was opened under the VidEdit Program included in the SDK and re-encoded as in the Intel Indeo 3.2 format. The resolution of the final video was 512 by 340 pixels. None of the audio codecs for Windows 95 handle audio encoded as an MP3 stream. When the video was converted from an MP4 to an XVID, I did it using the Free Audio Video Pack 2.22 (GUI Frontend for FFMPEG) with the XVID AVI using an 16-bit PCM stream. 86Box is emulating a Gateway 2000 Multimedia PC with a i430VX Tigereye motherboard, Intel Pentium Processor running at 75MHz, 16MB's of RAM, AMD PC-net-ISA network adapter, S3 Trio 64 SVGA Video Adapter running at the following screen resolution: 800 by 600, 16-bit (65,536 Colors) depth. The configuration has a emulated Creative Labs SoundBlaster 16 and has the Windows 95 Gateway 2000 OEM version installed. Songs Used: Higher Octane By Vans In Japan YouTube Audio Library MP3 (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MP3 WinAMP (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winamp Software Used: Recorded With OBS Studio Composed In Kdenlive Hardware Used: PC equipped with a AMD FX-4300 Quad-Core Processor running at 3.8GHz Nvidia GTX 950 GPU