![]() ![]() I have nothing monetarily to gain by duplicating content here.īecause I had made my own local copy of this content throughout the years, for ease of using tools like grep, I decided to put it online after I discovered Let me first say this site has never had anything to sell and has never shown ads of any kind. It may have slight formatting modifications for consistency and to improve readability. Raymond Chen's "Old New Thing" Blog (most recent link is here). The content herein is an archived reproduction of entries from If you are the owner and would like it removed, please Perhaps their software self-updates, so they want the updated version to replace the old one's window seamlessly. Of course, having a single window with two different panes of content would probably be neater, but there may be a good reason they can't do that – like in Task Manager's case, where the two windows are owned by different processes, even though the user sees them as two modes of a single window. In fact, "We want to suppress the effect because our program replaces one window with another, and we want the operation to be invisible to the user" makes perfect sense to me: this is exactly what Task Manager does when you elevate it, for one thing (the new, elevated Task Manager replaces the non-elevated predecessor window) the malware theory doesn't fit at all here, since the original request would seem to involve just a single process replacing one of its own windows with another – in-process malware would surely want to intercept information displayed, keystrokes etc rather than replace a whole window. "I tried DwmÂEnableÂComposition but that affects the entire desktop" – at least this guy understood that was the wrong approach to use, for the reason Raymond states underneath! I guess if Windows 8 requires composition, they'll probably never fix this issue in the older versions of Windows that don't require composition. It's interesting you are running into the same thing but involving 3D rendering instead of audio. I wonder what tricks they figured out to work around this? Oddly enough, Windows Media Player doesn't have this problem and always plays smoothly. And it still happens if I designate RealPlayer as "high" priority in Task Manager. It still happens even if I disable the visualization such that the only updates in the RealPlayer window are the trackbar/timer showing my position in the audio. This happens for minimize/maximize animations in any app, not just RealPlayer. ![]() If composition is disabled, the music stops for the duration of the animation. If composition is enabled, I can minimize/maximize all I want and the music keeps playing without interruption. At this moment, I have RealPlayer playing some music with a visualization. Sadly, this effort was hamstrung by the dot-com collapse and tepid consumer interest, and, after a few years, was quietly withdrawn.Octoat 8:30 Maybe you're observing the same thing as me. For $10 a month, users could access, on-demand, content from the likes of CBS, the Ministry of Sound, the BBC, and Al Jazeera. At the time, most home users were making do with steam-powered 56k dial-up.īy the turn of the millennium, RealNetworks had posited RealPlayer as less of a media player and more of a portal for a range of premium content. The problem was, streaming services-even at their grainiest and most rudimentary-needed a fast internet connection. ![]() It wasn’t the roaring success the company had hoped for the internet at the time just wasn’t ready for it. Two years later, RealNetworks introduced RealVideo, its proprietary video streaming and storage format. In 1995, the first live sporting event (a heated match between the New York Yankees and the Seattle Mariners) was streamed across the Internet using RealPlayer and the RealAudio codec. ![]()
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