Tag: DirectShow

Anniversary Webcam Saga: It’s clear who’s guilty, now what to do? (Updated)

As new and new people discover the Windows 10 Anniversary Update breaking changes (expectedly running mad), let’s reiterate the possible solutions: You don’t like the idea that video sharing service adds latency, and adds man-in-the-middle access/spying over a video feed. See #6 below. You are consuming raw video from camera using one of the uncompressed…

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Video Capture in Windows 10 Anniversary Update Again: MJPG is still here but hidden by new Frame Server thing

The problem with video capture issues looks more or less clear. As explained by Mike M here, the breaking changes in Windows 10 Anniversary Update are caused by intentional redesign of the platform that enable shared access to video capture devices. … it is now possible for multiple applications to access the camera in ways…

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Understanding Your DirectShow Filter Graph

Many questions in DirectShow development are caused by lack of developer’s understanding what topology his code effectively built. Intelligent Connect and RenderXxx methods help adding and connecting filters and in the end a developer does not have a faintest idea what the pipeline looks like. DirectShow API provides methods to enumerate filters, pins, connection and…

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Little known DirectShow VMR-7 snapshot problem

There is so little information about this problem (not really a bug, rather a miscalculation) out there because it is coming up with customized Video Mixing Renderer Filter 7 and there is no problem with straightforward use. In windowless mode the renderer is accepting media samples and displays them as configured. IVMRWindowlessControl::GetCurrentImage method is available…

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Reference Signal Source: RGB32/ARGB32 Subtypes, Media Foundation Media Source for Video

An update for Reference signal source for DirectShow DLLs: the source is doing more accurately RGB subtypes and allows specification whether you want MEDIASUBSTYPE_RGB32 or MEDIASUBSTYPE_ARGB32 additionally the DLL implements Microsoft Media Foundation Media Source for the video stream A more detailed description follows. RGB32 and ARGB32 are very close and share the same byte…

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Intel® RealSense™ Camera in DirectShow/Media Foundation

There is an intersting submission for video capture device capabilities for “The Short-Range Intel® RealSenseâ„¢ Camera F200” camera. Another blog user earlier mentioned they have a good stock of the devices with plans to take advantage of new technology. It sounds like the new cameras offer new opportunities for application in user interaction, in ability…

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