// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
In order to better troubleshoot network cameras and other devices, I added a new DirectShow filter to write HTTP response headers and body into a single file, one file (actually a pairs of files, the second file contains UTF-8 formatted HTTP response headers) per HTTP response. While troubleshootting JPEG artefact issue with I used the…
I have been frequently troubleshooting remote systems and otherwise provide various temporary binary files to remote production sites with fixes or beta versions of new features etc. The software is such that that customer sites have specific combination of hardware, configuration, hardware on LAN, software conflicts and there is a number of things that are…
At some point you might need to start paying special care for resources. Why? Perhaps there might be a number of reasons, I had to when I was dealing with first OEM versions of software and then internationalization. The whole idea is to let development team keep on working on regular version of software, in…
Having DirectShow Filter Graph Spy installed in the system, I noticed a new and weird effect that when Media Player Classic plays a list of files and each MP3 file being currently decoded shows decoder’s system tray icon, a switch to a new file leaves an old icon in place and adds a new icon…
I decided to download a beta of Windows 7, so many people shared their positive impressions of. I am not quite sure I will have time to actually evaluate it, but for the case I would feel like, it is always nice to have the .ISO image ready for a try. There was nothing worth…
At the time of original implementation I intentionally left off a variation of Filter Graph Manager that runs on application thread, CLSID_FilterGraphNoThread. MSDN says: CLSID_FilterGraphNoThread creates the Filter Graph Manager on the application’s thread. If you use this CLSID, the thread that calls CoCreateInstance must have a message loop that dispatches messages; otherwise, deadlocks can…
Inspired by a post on DirectShow Development Forum, it is sometimes useful to find out how certain application is using DirectShow to capture live video and/or audio, or play certain file etc. Filter graph topology, details about media types on the pins, used interfaces and call order. There is quite an easy step for the…