RTVideo is

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's default video codec for Office Communications Server 2007 and the

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2007 client. It is a Microsoft proprietary implementation of the

VC-1 SMPTE 421, informally known as VC-1, is a video coding format. Most of it was initially developed as Microsoft's proprietary video format Windows Media Video 9 in 2003. With some enhancements including the development of a new Advanced Profile, ...

codec for real-time transmission purposes. Microsoft extensions to VC-1 are based on cached frame and SP-frame. Also it includes system-level enhancements for recovery of

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on IP networks - forward error correction and error concealment.

Licensing

RTVideo is a proprietary codec. Like

RTAudio RTAudio is a Microsoft produced adaptive wide-band speech codec. It is used by Microsoft Office Communications Server (OCS) and the related OCS clients ( Microsoft Office Communicator, and Microsoft Live Meeting Console). RTAudio was designed for ...

this protocol can also be licensed from Microsoft.

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