Video for Windows
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Video for Windows is an early Microsoft multimedia framework and API for Windows that enabled digital video playback and editing on PCs in the 1990s.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Media Foundation | 1 |
| Microsoft Video for Windows | 1 |
| Microsoft multimedia framework | 1 |
| Video for Windows canonical | 1 |
| Video for Windows SDK | 1 |
| Video for Windows framework | 1 |
| Video for Windows runtime | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1719895 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Video for Windows Context triple: [DirectShow, predecessor, Video for Windows]
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A.
DirectShow
DirectShow is a Microsoft multimedia framework and API used on Windows for capturing, processing, and playing audio and video streams.
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B.
DirectX
DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Microsoft that enables high-performance handling of graphics, sound, and other multimedia tasks, especially for games, on Windows platforms.
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C.
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center is a discontinued Microsoft digital video recorder and media player application for Windows that provided a TV-friendly interface for watching and recording live television, playing media, and accessing online content.
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D.
QuickTime
QuickTime is Apple’s multimedia framework and file format standard used for handling and playing digital video, audio, and interactive content across platforms.
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E.
Windows Movie Maker
Windows Movie Maker is a discontinued video editing software from Microsoft that allowed users to create, edit, and share home movies on Windows.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Video for Windows Target entity description: Video for Windows is an early Microsoft multimedia framework and API for Windows that enabled digital video playback and editing on PCs in the 1990s.
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A.
DirectShow
DirectShow is a Microsoft multimedia framework and API used on Windows for capturing, processing, and playing audio and video streams.
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B.
DirectX
DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Microsoft that enables high-performance handling of graphics, sound, and other multimedia tasks, especially for games, on Windows platforms.
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C.
Windows Media Center
Windows Media Center is a discontinued Microsoft digital video recorder and media player application for Windows that provided a TV-friendly interface for watching and recording live television, playing media, and accessing online content.
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D.
QuickTime
QuickTime is Apple’s multimedia framework and file format standard used for handling and playing digital video, audio, and interactive content across platforms.
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E.
Windows Movie Maker
Windows Movie Maker is a discontinued video editing software from Microsoft that allowed users to create, edit, and share home movies on Windows.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
application programming interface
ⓘ
multimedia framework ⓘ software component ⓘ |
| architecture |
16-bit
ⓘ
32-bit ⓘ |
| backwardCompatibility | supported in later Windows versions for legacy apps ⓘ |
| category |
Video for Windows
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft multimedia framework
Windows Media ⓘ
surface form:
Windows multimedia API
|
| component |
AVIFile API
ⓘ
Capture driver interface ⓘ Installable Compression Manager ⓘ MCIAVI driver ⓘ Video for Windows self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Video for Windows SDK
Video for Windows self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Video for Windows runtime
|
| designedFor |
Windows 3.x
ⓘ
surface form:
Windows 3.1 multimedia extensions
|
| developer | Microsoft ⓘ |
| fileExtension | .avi ⓘ |
| fileFormat |
AVI
ⓘ
surface form:
Audio Video Interleave
|
| genre | multimedia technology ⓘ |
| influenced | AVI file format adoption on Windows ⓘ |
| introduced | early 1990s ⓘ |
| mainFunction |
digital video editing
ⓘ
digital video playback ⓘ video capture ⓘ video compression ⓘ video decompression ⓘ |
| notableFor | enabling consumer digital video on early PCs ⓘ |
| operatingSystem |
Windows
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows
Windows 3.x ⓘ Windows 95 ⓘ Windows NT ⓘ |
| platform | Intel-based PCs ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1992 ⓘ |
| status | legacy technology ⓘ |
| successor |
DirectShow
ⓘ
Windows Media ⓘ
surface form:
Windows Media Foundation
|
| supportsFeature |
AVI file creation
ⓘ
AVI file playback ⓘ frame-by-frame video access ⓘ hardware-assisted video capture ⓘ playback control ⓘ seeking within video files ⓘ software video codecs ⓘ synchronized audio and video ⓘ video overlay ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
Windows software developers
ⓘ
multimedia application developers ⓘ |
| usesLibrary |
Win32 API
ⓘ
surface form:
Microsoft Windows APIs
|
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Video for Windows Description of subject: Video for Windows is an early Microsoft multimedia framework and API for Windows that enabled digital video playback and editing on PCs in the 1990s.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Video for Windows runtime
this entity surface form:
Video for Windows SDK
this entity surface form:
Microsoft multimedia framework
subject surface form:
DirectShow
this entity surface form:
Media Foundation
this entity surface form:
Microsoft Video for Windows
this entity surface form:
Video for Windows framework