http://alax.info/blog Software Production Line Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:01:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you are searching for software or an utility: Software: check NTFS Links, DHCP Server pages WordPress Plugins: check Google Talk Sidebar Widget pages Utilities: check Utilities category and check subcategories on the sidebar If you are you interested in C++ development, ATL and WTL: If you are interested in C++ DirectShow/Media Foundation development, check ... http://alax.info/blog/200 This quick update for DirectShow Filter Graph Spy adds tracing for (deprecated) IAMFilterData interface, and also fixes problem with Media Player Classic - Home Cinema, when the player crashes in External Filters windows. Partial Visual C++ .NET 2008 source code is available from SVN, release binary included (Win32, x64); ... http://alax.info/blog/1111 DirectShow Filter Graph Spy was updated to add new functionality: spying over another DirectShow object - Filter Mapper. Filter Mapper object is used for filter registration purposes and also internally by DirectShow's Intelligent Connect. IFilterMapper2 interface traces provide detailed description on steps DirectShow takes in order to connect  and/or render ... http://alax.info/blog/1100 Today's update for DirectShow Filter Graph Spy introduces 64-bit version (mind the beta state) and a mini-API for an external module to be involved into graph building process. Filter Graph Spy is offering three new interfaces that provide extensibility of the spy: IFilterGraphAddRemoveHook IFilterGraphConnectHook IFilterGraphStateControlHook The interfaces are contained in the type library and can ... http://alax.info/blog/1094 Regsvr32 tool is the one to register DLL hosted COM servers with the system, this is what many have learned without even knowing anything about COM. On 64-bit operating systems DLLs are 32-bit and 64-bit images, and an important thing about them is that there is no way to mix them ... http://alax.info/blog/1090 It was a sort of ridiculous problem: an attempt to instantiate a Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 object failed with error. Still some applications are still running without problems connecting to Jet daabases, how comes? There has been a number of posts on Internet, but none of the top ones appeared to be relevant. The problem ... http://alax.info/blog/1086 The question is being asked from time to time. Everyone knows what is full screen video. Video renderers implement full screen capability since long ago through their IVideoWindow::put_FullScreenMode property, and even Filter Graph Manager exposes its own IVideoWindow interface to forward calls to filter's implementation of IVideoWindow interface. However, for Video ... http://alax.info/blog/1082 From a conversation: I have a video stream with variable frame rate, I want to make this in to a constant  frame rate. Do you know of any filters that could help me with this? Such filter is actually quite easy. You only need to update time stamps of the media ... http://alax.info/blog/1080 Having hard time to connect to remote filter graph on Windows 7 machine, I suspected that some of the filters do not like being connected through marshaling and freeze. Or, actually more likely, it is SDK's proppage.dll which hosts proxy stub pairs behaves itself in a not quite expected way ... http://alax.info/blog/1078 A small fix for M-JPEG video streams retrieved by HTTP Stream Source Filter: Username and password contained in URL are honored for Basic HTTP authentication Correctly parsed HTTP response headers with quotes, e.g.: Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary="myboundary" Partial Visual C++ .NET 2008 source code is available from SVN, release binary included. http://alax.info/blog/1073