Microsoft Windows Logo Program System and Device Requirements

B11.2 DVD Playback

All general requirements in B1.0 are included by reference.
All bus-specific requirements in B2.0 are included by reference.
All general requirements in B11.1 are included by reference.

Note: DVD playback is an optional feature, even for systems that include DVD drives.

B11.2.1 DVD Playback - Windows Compatibility

B11.2.1.1 "DirectShow and DVD Support" in the Windows DDK

B11.2.1.2 Windows compatibility and implementation notes—DVD Playback

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/dvd/

B11.2.2 DVD Playback - Industry Standards

B11.2.2.1 DVD Specification, V. 1.0

[VID-0219; SDG3:194]
http://www.mpeg.org/MPEG/DVD/

B11.2.2.2 DVD physical format documents

Global Engineering Documents at http://global.ihs.com/.

B11.2.3 DVD Playback - Quality

B11.2.3.1 Pass WHQL tests

See B1.3, B4.1.4.11.

Windows XP: See “DVD Playback” in the HCT documentation.

B11.2.3.2 SEE B11.2.4.5

B11.2.4 DVD Playback - Windows Experience

Design Guideline References:
PC 2001 System Design Guide, Chapter 9, "Video"

B11.2.4.1 Experience should be the same or better than with a stand-alone player

B11.2.4.2 Multiple aspect ratio content is displayed correctly, with the default being the information in the MPEG header

[VID-0215.5]

B11.2.4.3 DVD decoder requirements

[VID-0216, 0218, 0219, 0220, 0223, 0340]

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  Driver correctly handles media types, time discontinuity, and decode-rate adjustment. [VID-0218]
  
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  All DVD video decoders must support Line21 closed-caption data. [VID-0223; see FAQ B11.2.5.2]
  
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  All MPEG-2 decoders can accept an MPEG-2 elementary Stream. [VID-0216]
  
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  DVD decoder supports subpicture compositing and closed captioning. [VID-0219]
  
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  Subpicture decoder correctly handles subpicture properties and other functions. [VID-0220]
  
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  MPEG decoders with motion compensation or Inverse DCT hardware acceleration use Microsoft DirectX VA API. [VID-0340]
  
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  Windows XP: DVD decoders must use the operating system’s native file system support to read DVD drives; alternatively, for SCSI devices, requests can be passed using IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH. The decoder must not use non-Microsoft drivers to read the content of DVD drives.
  

B11.2.4.4 DVD-Video player navigates chapter breaks seamlessly

[VID-0222]

Even if the underlying elementary streams were created as separate program chain (PGC) objects.

B11.2.4.5 Alpha blending of subpicture content on static menus

[VID-0219]

B11.2.5 DVD Playback - FAQs

B11.2.5.1 Current DVD-Video FAQs

See http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/hardware/video/.

B11.2.5.2 DVD-Video navigation requirement [Logo Program Clarification]

The motivation for the requirement is that software vendors need a standard interface to DVD-style MPEG playback. This is necessary for such applications as games that include MPEG video, Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations with video, WebDVD applications, and encyclopedias such as Microsoft Encarta® or Compton, and to allow users to exchange MPEG files for display on different PCs.

Windows 98/Me: Windows Logo testing requirements:

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  WHQL testing will ensure that software decoders work with the Microsoft Navigator and the Microsoft DVD Player application runs on OEM systems that support DVD playback.
  
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  WHQL will not test OEM systems to determine whether a software DVD player is talking with the software decoder by way of the Microsoft Navigator. Any third-party navigator must use DirectShow and support the same interfaces as the Microsoft Navigator.
  

A DVD player application can talk privately with a software decoder, provided that the decoder also works with the Microsoft Navigator.

Microsoft encourages implementers to provide Microsoft with details about additional required navigator features, so that those features can be added to the future API.

FAQ Date: August 26, 1999; revisions March 10, 2000; revised May 4, 2000; revised June 19, 2000

B11.2.5.3 CSS copyright protection [Logo Program Clarification]

Copy Scramble System (CSS) copyright protection is not a Logo Program requirement. The related technical issue is addressed through proprietary licensing programs and is not a testing requirement for the Windows Logo Program.
FAQ Date: January 18, 2000

B11.2.R DVD Playback - Future Requirements

Announcement of additional future requirements will be published at http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/hardware/video/.

B11.3 TV Tuner

All general requirements in B1.0 are included by reference.
All bus-specific requirements in B2.0 are included by reference.
All general requirements in B11.1 are included by reference.

B11.3.1 TV Tuner - Windows Compatibility

B11.3.1.1 Microsoft TV platform

http://www.microsoft.com/tv/

B11.3.1.2 DELETED

B11.3.1.3 Windows XP: Broadcast Driver Architecture

All TV receiver modules for use with Windows XP must conform to the BDA architecture, as defined in the DirectX 8 DDK and in “Broadcast Driver Architecture Drivers” in the Windows DDK. Data streams along with video and audio streams are required to be passed into the Microsoft DirectShow environment. The IP Sink filter provided within the BDA architecture is the mechanism for getting the data to the IP software rather than using an NDIS driver for the TV tuner module.

WebTV for Windows and related DLLs are not part of the Windows XP product. All analog and digital video capture solutions must be based on published DirectShow interfaces, WDM Video Capture and Broadcast Driver Architectures.

B11.3.2 TV Tuner - Industry Standards

B11.3.2.1 ATSC Digital Television Standard, Amendment No. 1

http://www.atsc.org/Standards/stan_rps.html

B11.3.2.2 DVD specifications

[VID-0219; SDG3:194]
http://www.dvd.org

B11.3.2.3 OpenCable specification

http://www.opencable.com

B11.3.3 TV Tuner – Quality

B11.3.3.1 SEE B11.3.4.6

B11.3.3.2 - B11.3.3.4 DELETED

B11.3.3.5 Pass WHQL tests

See B1.3, B4.1.4.11.

Windows XP: See “Streaming Media and Broadcast” in the HCT documentation.

B11.3.4 TV Tuner - Windows Experience

Design Guideline References:
PC 2001 System Design Guide, Chapter 9, "Video"

B11.3.4.1 VBI capture samples VBI data exactly 4.7 or 5 times

[VID-0225]

B11.3.4.2 Digital broadcast module can receive

[VID-022x]

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  All streams contained in the particular transport stream [VID-0226]
  
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  Full bandwidth from each frequency [VID-0227]
  
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  A minimum of 32 simultaneous elementary streams [VID-0228]
  

B11.3.4.3 - B11.3.4.5 DELETED

B11.3.4.6 No tearing or other artifacts (macroblocking, jaggies, and so on)

[VID-0215]

B11.3.5 TV Tuner - FAQs

See http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/hardware/video/.

B11.3.R TV Tuner - Future Requirements

Announcement of additional future requirements will be published at http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/hardware/video/.