Tag: Media Foundation

Hardware accelerated JPEG video decoder MFT from AMD

Video GPU vendors (AMD, Intel, NVIDIA) ship their hardware with drivers, which in turn provide hardware-assisted decoder for JPEG (also known as MJPG and MJPEG. and Motion JPEG) video in form-factor of a Media Foundation Transform (MFT). JPEG is not included in DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) 2.0 specification, however hardware carries implementation for the decoder.…

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Media Foundation API primitive styling of WinRT windows.mediaCodec

An interesting Media Foundation question on StackOverflow: Weird connection between CoInitializeSecurity() and Media Foundation Encoders A developer has reasons to discard standard COM security and go RPC_C_IMP_LEVEL_ANONYMOUS. Surprisingly this has effect on Windows Media Foundation API in the part of available codecs (Media Foundation Transforms). Sample code: CoInitializeSecurity line in the code above removes the…

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Media Foundation incorrectly reports resolution for H.265/HEVC video tracks

Another problem (bug) with Microsoft Media Foundation MPEG-4 Media Source H.265/HEVC handler is that it ignores conformance_window_flagflag and values from H.265’s seq_parameter_set_rbsp (see H.265 spec, F.7.3.2.2.1 General sequence parameter set RBSP syntax). The problem might or might not be limited to fragmented MP4 variants. It is overall questionable whether it has been a good idea…

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