// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Great news for those suffering from Visual Studio 2010 IDE crashes with losing recent source code changes. Visual Studio 2012 is way more stable (event with Visual Studio 2010 Platform Toolset!) and suffers from crashes without losing editor changes. The worst thing you seem to be getting is: Which is an access violation or stack…
As libx264 has so many presets and tunes, I was curious how they all related one to another when it comes to encode video info H.264. I was more interested in single pass encoding for live video, so the measurements are respectively for this mode of operation with encoder running in CRF (constant rate factor,…
A colleague raised a question that realloc does better than free + malloc because allocated memory block is never being actually shrunk and reallocations to smaller size following by reallocations to larger (but still not larger than one of the previous) do not lead to heap locks and actual underlying heap memory block reallocations. While…
Friday evening there was an email from the bank with a document in attached password-protected archive. The new security rules “for our safety” require that bank officers never send potentially sensitive information to outside world without reasonable security measures. Makes sense? At the same time the protection is nothing but a burden to both sender…
persiflage@stackoverflow asks if there is a chance to use DirectShow Spy see who sent an EC_ERRORABORT notification, which filter exactly. Let us see first why there is no way to find this out, and then we will see what we can do. DirectShow Filter Graph Manager accepts events from filters via its IMediaEventSink interface. The…
Although HRESULT codes are so common and structure is simple and well known, and even Visual Studio helps decoding the values nowadays, looking up for code takes some effort: hexadecimal value, searching through SDK headers or online, overlapped regions of codes in FACILITY_ITF etc. MSDN describes the codes in the following sections: Structure of COM…
Suppose you have an automation object that needs to implement a callback into caller Visual Basic environment, which can be Scripting Host, Visual Basic for Applications, ASP etc. With all the late binding in VB scripting and so much different C++ code – how to put everything together? There are great choices, let us have…