// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
I am sharing a couple of utilities to be able to quick check system settings. TimeZoneInformation prints in a human friendly style TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION structure as reported by Windows through GetTimeZoneInformation API. TIME_ZONE_INFORMATION: .Bias: -120 .StandardName: FLE Standard Time .StandardDate: { .wYear 0, .wMonth 10, .wDay 5, .wDayOfWeek 0, .wHour 4, .wMinute 0, .wSecond 0, .wMilliseconds…
This is a begged MFC code for multiple windowless video renderers. MFC project, two independent video renderers hosted by the same parent window (actually through owned controls but this makes no major difference), VMR9 in windowless mode. (this expects C:\Windows\clock.avi file to be available which is no longer the case after Windows XP – simply…
> How do you test performance? I don’t. I just believe in it. This is actually what we have here but still we have managed to deliver software that gives more frames per second than rivals. Why? We hopefully knew what we did in first place. According to one of our partner hardware vendors, there…
I was recently at an autosport event under the aegis of FIA, where I leased my Magellan eXplorist 600 Europe unit to be used in the off-road race/baja (or “rally raid”) as a helper navigation device (the primary navigation for pilots is their roadmap in a hard paper version). Immediately before the rally the organizer…
Yesterday there was a support request on another weird problem which was eventually forwarded to me for investigation. The symptom was “application configured as Windows service does not start and shows “Starting” in services console all the time”. The case did not look difficult as the symptom clearly indicates a freeze or deadlock inside service,…
Yesterday I received a complaint from a Most Important Customer about a weird problem on a few of their digital video recording servers. The problem was that a new version of software, client part, would out of a sudden auto-close without any notice. The problem was quite persistent and basically of not a difficult kind…
IDirectSoundNotify8 is an interface to get notified on playback on capture audio buffer reaching certain position in the buffer. It is a must thing when implementing ring buffers with new data continuously added to the buffer for seamless playback (continuously copied from in case of capture). This project is a minimalistic C++ sample code to…