// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Video related stuff
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…
Two widely popular applications, which use DirectShow API appeared to be locked in a combat: Google video chat is installing a plugin which registers artificial video capture sources “Google Camera Adapter 0” and “Google Camera Adapter 1”. As the application does not announce any integration capabilities and is only using video for internal purposes for…
One of the popular questions asked in relation to DirectShow filters, and also a popular task is to modify video stream while in playback. There are various reasons one might need to do it, including keying video to replace color/range, or apply text or time code on top of video, including while re-compressing footage, adjust…
This quick update for DirectShow Filter Graph Spy adds tracing for (deprecated) IAMFilterData interface, and also fixes problem with Media Player Classic – Home Cinema, when the player crashes in External Filters windows. Partial Visual C++ .NET 2008 source code is available from SVN, release binary included (Win32, x64); installation instructions are in another post.
DirectShow Filter Graph Spy was updated to add new functionality: spying over another DirectShow object – Filter Mapper. Filter Mapper object is used for filter registration purposes and also internally by DirectShow’s Intelligent Connect. IFilterMapper2 interface traces provide detailed description on steps DirectShow takes in order to connect and/or render filter pins. For example when…
The question is being asked from time to time. Everyone knows what is full screen video. Video renderers implement full screen capability since long ago through their IVideoWindow::put_FullScreenMode property, and even Filter Graph Manager exposes its own IVideoWindow interface to forward calls to filter’s implementation of IVideoWindow interface. However, for Video Mixing Renderers, version 7…
From a conversation: Q: I am using Web camera with DirectShow. Camera has only capture pin, so I am looking for the best way to switch resolution on the pin while graph is running. I would like to keep preview with smaller image size and when i would like to capture an image i would…