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A profile contains all of the technical details required to encode multimedia content. It describes the type of content being encoded, desired audio and video quality, target bandwidths for clients playing the content, and required codecs. Using profiles eliminates the need for you to choose individual settings, enables you to proceed quickly to encoding, and enables you to reuse the same settings in subsequent encoding sessions. Many predefined system profiles are provided that address most encoding scenarios. You can also create your own custom profiles.

This page displays the full list of system profiles and any custom profiles you might have created. A green icon indicates system profiles; a red icon indicates custom profiles. You can create a new profile, edit or delete custom profiles, or copy a profile's characteristics and then edit it.

Click Details to view technical details about a profile.

When using several computers for encoding, you do not have to re-create custom profiles on each of them. Instead, create the custom profiles once, make sure that each computer has the devices and codecs required by the custom profiles, and then copy the profiles to each of the encoding computers. Custom profiles are stored in \Program files\Windows media components\Encoder\Profiles and have a .prx extension.

Note   Session profiles are not included in this list. They are automatically saved as part of the Windows Media Encoder configuration file with a .wme extension when you create an encoding session configuration and cannot be viewed, edited, or deleted.


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