// Software Production Line
An under 100 lines of C++ code sample that plays an MP3 file with Microsoft Media Foundation. https://github.com/roman380/MediaFoundationMinimalAudioPlayback Comes from this StackOverflow question, however unlike Microsoft’s sample it does not spread simple code among multiple source code files, gives a quick way to build & run, shows modern C++ practices (including Microsoft Windows Implementation Library…
I am sometimes using a rework of earlier DxgiTakeSnapshot application for one specific purpose mentioned below. In addition to Desktop Duplication API, recent version of Windows offer a similar (in sense of acquisition of external video content) API: Windows.Graphics.Capture (hereinafter “WGC”), and the new rework is using this API to capture visual content as a…
There is a new API coming with Windows 11. Finally we will get well defined way to register virtual cameras (perhaps for applications built against Windows Media Foundation API, not DirectShow): MFCreateVirtualCamera. Creates a virtual camera object which can be used by the caller to register, unregister, or remove the virtual camera from the system.…
If I run this, what the output would be? Here we go: What appears to be wrong is Unicode Left-to-Right mark character, which is killing the console and it stops accepting any further text! Now if you’re going to do this: Then you get what you want, and not the trailing EOL is in its…
Introducing another popular DirectShow project: Vivek’s source filter which emulates a video capture device. For a long time the code was hosted on P “The March Hare” W’s website, which was eventually taken down. I placed the recovered project, binaries, README and upgrade to Visual Studio 2019 on GitHub: roman380/tmhare.mvps.org-vcam: Original Vivek’s popular sample project…
Interface methods lack pure specifiers. This might be OK for some development but once you try to inherit your handler class from public winrt::implements<AsyncCallback, IRtwqAsyncCallback> you are in trouble! 1>Foo.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol “public: virtual long __cdecl IRtwqAsyncCallback::GetParameters(unsigned long *,unsigned long *)” (?GetParameters@IRtwqAsyncCallback@@UEAAJPEAK0@Z) 1>Foo.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol “public: virtual…
Isolated property is supposed to enable referencing in-process COM servers as a registration free COM dependency, but something got broken on the way: Visual Studio 2019 Preview and .NET 5 produce applications that lose the link. It is still preview so hopefully things get resolved timely. The issue on GitHub: Single-File Executable Cannot Use Registration…