// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
GeneratePcmWavFile tool is generating PCM .WAV files with requested parameters, silent or with a sine wave data. The utility uses WavDest SDK Sample as a multiplexer, so it is expected to be available. It is possible to define the following audio data parameters: sampling frequency, number of samples per second, such as 44100 or 48000…
The LoadCpu tool creates one or more threads to waste CPU cycles and emulate slower environment, such as for testing and troubleshooting. There has been a great deal of similar tools out there, and this one in particular is convenient/special as it takes process affinity mask as a parameter. That is, /a:NN defines affinity mask,…
Below is the chart for distribution of software piracy cases for product X by workstation locale. Russia (more exactly, Russian speaking community) is not the primary market for the product, nor it is the place where it is specifically popular or well-known for a reason. Welcome to the land of the brave, and guys who…
Crime An application which builds a DirectShow graph unexpectedly started failing with VFW_E_NOT_CONNECTED (0x80040209) error code. Scene The problem takes place during DirectShow graph building, yet in stopped state. Specific call which appeared to be giving out the error in first place appears to be EVR input pin’s IPin::ConnectionMediaType, and the problem is also specific…
DirectShow Spy is updated with a few new features: retroactive Intelligent Connect trace log output for IAMGraphBuilderCallback-related activity process name based black list to selectively exclude processes from spying Intelligent Connect Trace The utility received a capability to read back from its own log file (DirectShowSpy.log, located typically in C:\ProgramData directory) and reconstruct graph building…
A customer complained on video playback problems which had symptoms of software compatibility issue. At certain operation modes software froze leaving the only option to kill process and restart. I appeared that the system has a third party DLL installed, a new hero name’s – picapmk4.dll. The DLL registers itself as Video for Windows codec…
A colleague pointed out that code snippet in previous post is misusing ATL’s ATLENSURE_SUCCEEDED macro making it [possibly] evaluate its argument twice in case of failure, that is evaluating into failure HRESULT code. As it is defined like this: #define ATLENSURE_SUCCEEDED(hr) ATLENSURE_THROW(SUCCEEDED(hr), hr) It does things in a straightforward way, for a code line ATLENSURE_SUCCEEDED(pFilterGraph.CoCreateInstance(CLSID_FilterGraph));…