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Restricted Profiles

This section provides information about the following restricted profiles that Microsoft DirectX VA can support.

These restricted profiles are defined in anticipation of combinations of features likely to find widespread support. They establish a set of video coding tools necessary for decoding and also determining whether a given video data format can be decoded in some fashion using the DirectX VA API.

For information about the restricted profiles of the MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) and VC-1 video codec standards, see DirectX Video Acceleration Specification for H.264/AVC Decoding and DirectX Video Acceleration Specification for Windows Media Video v8, v9 and vA Decoding (Including SMPTE 421M "VC-1").