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This section describes limitations in earlier versions of Windows that prevented clients from playing non-PCM audio, and presents a set of guidelines for adapting a WDM audio driver to support non-PCM data formats on more recent versions of Windows.
Additionally, this section describes the new subformat GUIDs in Windows 7 that provide support for compressed audio formats.
This section includes the following topics:
Requirements for a Non-PCM Pin Factory
Subformat GUIDs for Compressed Audio Formats
Converting Between Format Tags and Subformat GUIDs
S/PDIF Pass-Through Transmission of Non-PCM Streams