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This standards update presents new and updated information for dealing with multimedia data under Microsoft Windows. This document is also available as part of the Multimedia Developer Registration Kit. The MDRK is used to register multimedia data and ids as well as new MCI command sets. This document is the result of companies requesting and registering new data types. This document builds on the standard RIFF documentation that is contained in:

1. The Multimedia Development Kit (MDK) 1.0 Programmer's Reference

2. The Windows 3.1 Software Development Kit (SDK)'s Multimedia Programmer's Reference

3. The Multimedia Programmer's Reference book from Microsoft Press

4. Video for Windows 1.1 SDK Programmer's Guide

The RIFF file format is a standard published as a joint design document by IBM and Microsoft. This standards document is Multimedia Programming Interface and Data Specifications 1.0 published in August 1991. The first draft of this document was issued in November, 1990.

This standards update assumes that the reader has read the concepts defined in these documents.

New RIFF file forms and chunks are defined in this document. The new RIFF forms and chunks defined here have been registered with Microsoft. If you want to register your own RIFF forms and chunks, fill out and return the Multimedia Developer Registration Kit.

In addition, techniques for dealing with multimedia data in the system, such as clipboard data, are defined in this document.

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