windows media foundation download win 10 Media feature pack for N and Windows 10 KN editions. In Windows 10 1511, this update is superseded by update 3099229 for the November 2015 release of Media Feature Pack. This Media Feature Pack applies to Windows 10 version 1508. If you have a different version of Windows, please go to KB 3145500 to find the appropriate Media Feature Pack for your version of Windows. Introduction. The N and KN editions of Windows 10 include the same functionality as Windows 10, except for media-related technologies () and certain preinstalled media apps (, Video, Voice Recorder, and ). You must install other software from or a third-party for this communication functionality and to play or create audio CDs, media files, and video DVDs, to stream music, and to take and store pictures. New features such as and PDF viewing in the new Edge browser rely on Windows Media files that are not present in these editions. Some websites and software, such as Windows Store apps or Microsoft Office, use Windows Media-related files that are not incorporated into these editions of Windows. Users can make these websites and software work correctly by installing the Media Feature Pack for N and KN editions of Windows 10. More Information. Download information. The following file is available for download from the Microsoft Download Center: Excluded features. The N and KN editions include the same functionality as Windows 10 editions, except for Windows Media Player and related technologies. The excluded technologies include, but are not limited to, the following features: Windows Media Player user experience: Enables Windows Media Player features such as the ability to play media files and audio CDs, manage media in a library, create a playlist, provide metadata (including album art) for media, create an audio CD, transfer music to a portable music player, and play streaming content from a website. Windows Media Player ActiveX control: Exposes methods and properties to manipulate multimedia playback from a webpage or an app. Windows Media Format: Provides support for the Advanced Systems Format (ASF) file container, the Windows Media audio and video codecs, basic network streaming capability, and digital rights management (DRM). Windows Media DRM: Enables the secure delivery of protected content for playback on a computer, portable device, or network device. Media sharing and Play To: Enables music, pictures, and videos on a networked computer to be shared with other computers and devices on the same network. Also enables computers to find those kinds of files on the network. Media Foundation: Provides support for content protection, audio and video quality, and interoperability for DRM. Windows 8.1 Portable Devices (WPD) infrastructure: Communicates with attached media and storage devices, including devices that support the . MPEG, WMA, AAC, FLAC, ALAC, AMR, and Dolby Digital audio codecs: Enables the playback of digital audio content such as MP3, WMA, MPEG-2 audio, AAC audio, FLAC and ALAC audio, and AC-3 audio. VC-1, MPEG-4, H.264, H.265, and H.263 codecs: "Standards-based codec components" (as they are collectively called) enable Windows 10 program such as Windows Media Player to support activities that include the playback and creation of multimedia files that are encoded with standards-based codecs. Groove Music: A preinstalled app that is used to play digital music. Video: A preinstalled app that is used to play digital video. Voice Recorder: A preinstalled app that is used to record sounds. Skype: A preinstalled app that is used for messaging and communications. Effect on other features. Some features are not removed. However, they are affected by the media technology removal in the N and KN editions. These features include the following: App Sync: This feature does not work. OneDrive and Photos: These apps cannot play videos. app: Some functionality associated with this app (such as Game DVR) do not work, and Windows Gaming will not be available. HomeGroup: Integrated media sharing through streaming features do not work. Webcam: This feature does not work. Windows Portable Devices: There is no support for media synchronization, image acquisition, or file browsing. Windows 10 camera devices: Cameras that use the picture transfer protocol (PTP) do not work. Sound Recorder: Recordings are limited to the WAV format. for removable disks: This feature does not work. Cortana Personal Assistant: Speech interaction with Cortana does not work. Windows Store Media Content: Audio and video content acquired via the Store cannot be played. Also, preview of audio or video content in the Store does not work. What's New for WDF Drivers in Windows 10. This topic summarizes the new features and improvements for Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF) drivers in Windows 10. Windows 2022 includes Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF) version 1.33 and User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) version 2.33. You can use these framework versions to build drivers for: Windows 10 (all SKUs) Windows Server 2022. For version history, see KMDF Version History and UMDF Version History. Except where noted, UMDF references on this page describe version 2 functionality that is not available in UMDF version 1. New in WDF for Windows Server 2022. New in WDF for Windows 10, version 2004. New in WDF for Windows 10, version 1903. No functionality added or changed. New in WDF for Windows 10, version 1809. Added new API WdfDriverRetrieveDriverDataDirectoryString. New in WDF for Windows 10, version 1803. New in WDF for Windows 10, version 1709. New in WDF for Windows 10, version 1703. In Windows 10, version 1703, WDF includes the following enhancements: New WDF Verifier settings to detect excessive object creation. In some cases, framework objects are incorrectly parented and not deleted after use. With this feature, you can specify a maximum number of objects and what should happen when this threshold is exceeded. To start monitoring, add the following registry values under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\\Parameters\wdf. Add a DWORD value named ObjectLeakDetectionLimit with the threshold value. This is the maximum number of objects of the types described in the ObjectsForLeakDetection key. Add a new REG_MULTI_SZ value named ObjectsForLeakDetection that lists each type name to verify. For example, you could specify WDFDMATRANSACTION WDFDEVICE . To specify all handle types, use * as the string. To control whether exceeding this threshold should cause a debug break or a bugcheck, set the DbgBreakOnError key. By default, if the ObjectsForLeakDetection key is not specified, the framework monitors WDFREQUEST, WDFWORKITEM, WDFKEY, WDFSTRING, WDFOBJECT, and WDFDEVICE. The limit scales with the number of devices installed, so if the driver creates three WDFDEVICE objects, the WDF Verifier limit is three times the value specified in ObjectLeakDetectionLimit . If you specify WDFREQUEST, the verifier only counts WDFREQUEST objects that the driver creates. This feature does not currently support tracking the WDFMEMORY object type. SleepStudy tool provides info on KMDF drivers. The SleepStudy software tool reports the number of power references that a KMDF driver has that are preventing the system from going to sleep. For more info, see Modern standby SleepStudy. The rest of this page describes functionality that was added in Windows 10, version 1507. WDF source code is publicly available. The WDF source code is now available as open source on GitHub. This is the same source code from which the WDF runtime library that ships in Windows 10 is built. You can debug your driver more effectively when you can follow the interactions between the driver and WDF. Download it from https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-Driver-Frameworks. The private symbol files for WDF on Windows 10 are now available through the Microsoft Symbol Server. The Windows Driver Kit (WDK) 10 samples are also now published to GitHub. Download them from https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows- Driver-Samples. Automatic Source Level Debugging of Framework Code. When you use WinDbg to debug a WDF driver on Windows 10, WinDbg automatically retrieves the framework source code from Microsoft's public GitHub repository. You can use this feature to step through the WDF source code while debugging, and to learn about framework internals without downloading the source code to a local machine. For more information, see Debugging with WDF Source and Video: Debugging your driver with WDF source code. Universal Driver Compliance. All WDF driver samples and Visual Studio driver templates are Universal Windows driver compliant. All KMDF and UMDF 2 functionality is Universal Windows driver compliant. Note that UMDF 1 drivers run only on Windows 10 for desktop editions and earlier versions of desktop Windows. Want to benefit from the universal capabilities of UMDF 2? To learn how to port your old UMDF 1 driver, see Porting a Driver from UMDF 1 to UMDF 2. Debugging and Diagnosability. All KMDF and UMDF 2 drivers can use an always on, always available Inflight Trace Recorder (IFR). When a driver provides a custom trace, the driver IFR log contains the trace messages. Note that the new driver IFR log is separate from the framework IFR log that WDF creates for each driver. The IFR maintains a circular buffer of WPP traces in non-pageable memory. If a driver crashes, the logs are frequently included in the crash dump file. If you turn on the IFR in your driver binary, the IFR is present and running during the lifetime of your driver. You don't need to start an explicit trace collection session. IFR logs are included in minidump files except when the responsible driver is undetermined or if the crash was a host timeout. If you have a debugger connected, you can access both the driver and framework IFR logs by issuing !wdfkd.wdflogdump . If you do not have a debugger connected, you can still access both logs. To learn how, see Video: Accessing driver IFR logs without a debugger. When debugging a UMDF driver, you can merge framework logs with driver logs by issuing: !wdfkd.wdflogdump -m. UMDF logs (WudfTrace.etl) and dumps are now located in %ProgramData%\Microsoft\WDF instead of %systemDrive%\LogFiles\Wudf. New debugger command: !wdfkd.wdfumtriage provides a kernel-centric view of all UMDF devices on the system. You can run !analyze to investigate UMDF verifier failures or UMDF unhandled exceptions. This works for live kernel debugging as well as debugging user crash dump files from %ProgramData% \Microsoft\WDF. In KMDF and UMDF 2, you can monitor power reference usage in the debugger. For info, see Debugging Power Reference Leaks in WDF. You can use !wdfkd.wdfcrashdump to display error information about UMDF 2 drivers. For more information, see !wdfkd.wdfcrashdump . Performance Tracing tool for WDF drivers. You can use the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) to view performance data for a given KMDF or UMDF 2 driver. When tracing is enabled, the framework generates ETW events for I/O, PnP, and Power callback paths. You can then view graphs in the Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) that show I/O throughput rates, CPU utilization, and callback performance. The WPT is included in the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK). Additional support for HID drivers in UMDF. UMDF now fully supports HID filters (enumerated by HIDClass) and minidrivers. Simply port your existing KMDF driver or write a new UMDF 2 filter; the functionality is automatically enabled. UMDF HID minidrivers that are enumerated by ACPI can perform selective suspend. For more information, see Creating WDF HID Minidrivers. UMDF drivers can now be installed in the HID stack for low latency input devices such as touch and mouse. A driver for an input device should specify the UmdfHostPriority INF directive. For information, see Specifying WDF Directives in INF Files. Support for interrupts for GPIO-backed devices. UMDF 2 supports interrupts for GPIO-backed devices like hardware push-buttons. KMDF supports these devices natively, without the workaround described in Handling Active-Both Interrupts. For more information, see Creating an Interrupt Object. UMDF no longer requires WinUSB. New support has been added for USB drivers in UMDF. A UMDF 2 USB driver no longer uses WinUSB. To use the new functionality, the driver sets the UmdfDispatcher directive to NativeUSB , instead of WinUSB . See Specifying WDF Directives in INF Files. Media Foundation Codecs For Windows 10. These codecs are for example used by the following applications: Movies&TV (a.k.a. Films&TV) Windows Media Player (can also use DirectShow codecs) Windows Explorer Adobe Premiere. Below you can download installers for several codecs. You can also get these exact same codecs in the Windows 10 store. These codecs may fix: Error 0xc00d005212 This item was encoded with a format that's not supported. HEVC video (a.k.a. H.265): There are two versions of this codec. A free one and one that you can buy from Microsoft for $1 in the Windows 10 store. The free version only works on systems that have a graphics card (GPU) that is capable of hardware accelerated decoding of HEVC video. Download [for 64-bit Windows] [free version] [requires a GPU capable of decoding HEVC] Download [for 32-bit Windows] [free version] [requires a GPU capable of decoding HEVC] VP9 video: Aomedia AV1 video: MPEG-2 video: HEIF/HEIC image: Webp image: Installation. You can install these Media Foundation codecs by simply double-clicking on the downloaded .appx file. Uninstallation. You can uninstall these codecs via Windows Settings. Same way as you uninstall other items downloaded from the Windows 10 store. Media Feature Pack. If you have a European N or Korean KN edition of Windows then you should also install the Media Feature Pack from Microsoft to gain additional multimedia functionality. You can recognize these special versions of Windows by the fact that they do no include Windows Media Player by default. You can acquire this media package through Windows settings: Start > Settings > Apps > Apps & Features > Optional Features > Add a feature > Media Feature Pack. Download Media Feature Pack For Windows 10 N/KN All Versions. Are you from Europe or Korea? By default, Windows 10 will come without Windows Media Player and other media capabilities in these regions. These capabilities include playing and recording video and audio, creating audio CDs and video DVDs and manage playlists and music libraries. This is due to the laws of Europe and Korea. They do not permit the multimedia application to be pre-installed so that the competitors have a fair chance of competing against Microsoft’s media center and player. We have already explained the difference between Windows Editions including N and KN editions. But these users can always install Windows Media Player and other multimedia functions if they don’t want to use third-party multimedia applications. Microsoft provides Media Feature Pack for every version of Windows 10 including the latest 1803 version. Media Feature Pack is the safest option for multimedia management as it’s provided by Microsoft and it can be fully integrated into Windows. Although there is no big difference between normal Windows 10 and Windows 10 N/KN editions there are a few features that get disabled because they require Windows Media components to be installed to function properly. Microsoft has left these components non-functional in N/KN editions. If you install Media Feature Pack, these non-functional features will also start working. Some of the features that require WMP components include the following: OneDrive and Photos app can’t play videos without the media player. HomeGroup does not have streaming features in the absence of and Player. Sound Recorder is limited to recording in WAV format only. Cortana speech interaction doesn’t work. Wireless display feature also gets disabled. PDF viewing in Edge browser stops working. All these features will be enabled once Windows Media components are installed. Download Media Feature Pack For Windows 10 N/KN versions. If we go to the Media Feature Pack download page from Microsoft, it only lists the download links for supported Windows versions. If you have an older version of Windows 10, you can use the download links below to download the feature pack: Windows 10 Media Creation Tool For Version 20H2. Windows 10 Media Creation Tool for the recently released Windows 10 Version 20H2 is available for download. Media Creation Tool is one of the most popular tools to download Windows 10 and create a bootable USB/DVD automatically. Since this tool is from Microsoft, it is super reliable and easy to use. What is Media Creation Tool? Windows 10 Media Creation tool has two functions: Upgrade the PC which has already installed Windows 10 Create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD) for another PC or simply download the latest Windows 10 ISO file. Assistant is another tool which can be used to upgrade the PC seamlessly but I prefer the media creation tool. If you want to upgrade your PC to the latest version of Windows 10, you should select the first option. And if you want to create a bootable USB/DVD, then you should select the second option. The only problem with the Media Creation Tool is that it will try to download the Windows 10 setup every time you want to create a bootable USB/DVD. This is the default behavior. How to use Media Creation Tool. Let’s go through the process of upgrading from to Version 1909 using Windows 10 Media Creation Tool 1909. 1- Download. For specific version tool, you can use the following direct download links: 2- Running the setup. Once downloaded, run the file MediaCreationTool20h2.exe . This will open a new window which will take some time “Getting a few things ready”. Getting a few things ready. You will need to accept the license terms from Microsoft. Windows 10 Setup terms of use. 3- Choose your option. Upgrade this PC now Create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) for another PC. The upgrade option is checked by default. If you want to upgrade your Windows 10 to the latest version, then you should select this option. Once you press the Next button while selecting the first option, you will be taken to a new screen which will show you the progress of Windows 10 download from Microsoft servers. Downloading Windows 10. 4- Upgrading PC. Once the download is complete, the setup will ask you whether you want to download the latest security updates and install them along with the feature update. You can download the updates now or leave it for later as Windows will automatically download them after installation. When asked, please select Keep personal files and apps . This makes sure that your files and applications remain safe. 5- Install Windows 10 Version 20H2. Once you hit the Next button, Windows 10 Version 20H2 will start installing. once the installation is complete, you will be required to restart the system. If everything goes well, you can login to the updated version of Windows 10. Otherwise, if the setup fails for any reason, you will revert to the version of Windows which was installed before upgrading. 6- Create installation media. In step no. 3, if you selected the second option then you will be greeted with a similar screen but you will need to select Windows 10 language, edition, and architecture. Select language edition and architecture. USB flash drive ISO file. If you want to directly create a bootable USB drive, then select the first option. You will need USB/DVD storage of at least 8 GB. If you want to download the ISO file, then select the second option. You can create a bootable USB drive from the ISO using Rufus.