// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
One of the recent updates delivered via automatic Windows Update is breaking video decoding for Windows Media Video streams (four character code WMV3). It’s hard to trace things back, however the most likely issue is the update of WMVDECOD.DLL file which is dated 6 May 2013 delivered with MS13-057: Description of the security update for…
A typical task for DirectShow Spy is to get installed onto, make the target application filter graphs available for inspection and… then get inspected with some additional tool. The last step assumes there is an additional application ready to pick the graphs and an interactive user attaches to the graphs for visual inspection and troubleshooting.…
The tool provides a user- (well, actually a developer-) friendly printout of capabilities accessible via Blackmagic Design DeckLink SDK for DeckLink series of hardware. This covers features of DeckLink and Intensity series of hardware for video/audio capture, accessible via vendor’s SDK. The data is printed out in Markdown format, easy to read on its own…
Once upon a time Windows SDK (or it was Visual Studio) had a tool named IROTVIEW which enumerated Running Object Table (ROT). Running Object Table Viewer IROTVIEW displays information about ActiveX and OLE objects currently existing in memory. People ask “Where is IROTVIEW?” and there is no answer. The API is really simple, but if…
Someone discovered the utility while browsing my public repository (the app prompts to post data back to the website, and the anonymous user accepted the offer and posted the report from this unpublished application), so I have to drop a few lines about the tool. The idea is basically straightforward: live capture involves attaching time…
A small issue appears to be affecting DirectShow applications with DirectShow Spy installed. As underlying COM base is non-standard, the spy implements a few hacks to run smoothly and to keep reference counting correct in particular. Under certain conditions, DirectShow-enabled ActiveX control hosted by Internet Explorer seems to be unable to put its graph onto…
As mentioned before, new Skype 6 broke compatibility with all virtual DirectShow devices out there. Just oops, nothing works any longer if only it is not a full driver exposing virtual device through WDM. Since quite some people are interested in details (Skype 6 Virtual Camera issues, Skype Client for Windows – SCW-3881 – Virtual…