# DirectX Media

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**DirectX Media** is a set of [multimedia](/source/Multimedia)-related [APIs](/source/API) for [Microsoft Windows](/source/Microsoft_Windows) complementing [DirectX](/source/DirectX).

Retained Mode was used by a variety of applications and can still be implemented on systems newer than XP by copying the *d3drm.dll* file from an older version of Windows to the *system32* directory (for 32-bit Windows) or *SysWOW64* directory (for 64-bit Windows) to regain system-wide support.

## External links

- [DirectAnimation](https://web.archive.org/web/20011115022908/http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=%2Farchive%2Fen-us%2Fdnarmulmed%2Fhtml%2Fmsdn_directan.asp) ([MSDN](/source/MSDN))
- [DirectX Transform](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753546%28v=vs.85%29.aspx) (MSDN)

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