Month: May 2009

Video Decoder DMO and AM_SAMPLE_PREROLL

This does not seem to be documented anywhere, so it makes sense to mention. A video decoder, wrapped by DMO Wrapper Filter, will receive preroll media samples with AM_SAMPLE_PREROLL flag (alternatively available using IMediaSample::IsPreroll), but it won’t even forward these samples to the underlying DMO, instead they are just ignored. MSDN says: Preroll samples are…

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