A video renderer is

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that processes a video file and sends it sequentially to the video display controller card for display on a computer screen. An example of a video renderer, is the VMR-7 that was used by Microsoft's

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. An example of a UNIX video renderer is the one container within

GStreamer GStreamer is a Pipeline (computing), pipeline-based multimedia framework that links together a wide variety of media processing systems to complete complex workflows. For instance, GStreamer can be used to build a system that reads files in one f ...

. Commonly used video renderers are: *

Enhanced Video Renderer Media Foundation (MF) is a Component Object Model, COM-based multimedia framework pipeline and infrastructure platform for digital media in Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows 11. It is the intended replaceme ...

* VMR9 Renderless * Haali's Video Renderer * Madvr Video Renderer * JRVR, a part of

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