Category: Video

Video related stuff

AMCap issue

While playing around with a camera DirectShow video source filter, AMCap, which is widely used sample and which I believed to be very stable, started crashing in an inner call CDeviceMoniker::IsEqual: devenum.dll!CDeviceMoniker::IsEqual() + 0x13 bytes > AmCap.exe!ChooseDevices(IMoniker * pmVideo=0x003e9a38, IMoniker * pmAudio=0x00000000) Line 2672 + 0x2a bytes C++ AmCap.exe!ChooseDevices(wchar_t * szVideo=0x0013f5b8, wchar_t * szAudio=0x0013edb0) Line…

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MediaTools to deliver video from network/IP cameras and video servers into DirectShow environment

I decided to gather DirectShow code and filters related to processing video from network/IP cameras and video servers into a library (in fact, a few libraries) so that it could be easily used for testing, research and other purposes. As time is going to permit, documentation and sample code will be provided, further development will…

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FFDShow strikes back

FFDShow is already known for it issues (including for example mentioned one). Today’s featured one is related to its Video Decoder. A great deal of FFDShow related issues amy be worked around with a single shot by listing the image name as an FFDShow exclusion under registry: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\ffdshow; blacklist but I felt relaxed and the…

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