// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Windows Vista introduced helpful video and audio Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) in DMO form-factor, which however do not work smoothly with DMO Wrapper Filter and thus cannot be directly used in DirectShow. There perhaps was no intent in first place to extend DirectShow functionality with these new components, and no effort was put into providing…
With all respect to Blackmagic Design products, there are bugs so painfully hard to identify. Capture board driver has specific requirements as for buffers allocated for captured video frames. The parameters of memory allocator in used are going in ALLOCATOR_PROPERTIES structure. typedef struct _AllocatorProperties { long cBuffers; // 30 long cbBuffer; long cbAlign; // 16…
Unfortunately, AMAP_3D_TARGET appears to be useless. Internally, surface allocation comes up with the following capabilities for the surface: DDSCAPS_VIDEOMEMORY | DDSCAPS_LOCALVIDMEM | DDSCAPS_OFFSCREENPLAIN | DDSCAPS_3DDEVICE. Sadly, DirectDraw responds (might respond?) with E_NOTIMPL. While one can advance one step further by removing DDSCAPS_VIDEOMEMORY | DDSCAPS_LOCALVIDMEM, another problem is hit that you are no longer able to…
According to CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Season 06 Episode 13 (17:04), investigators are using snake scope camera with DirectShow AMCAP tool to present the captured image:
It is really great news that Windows 7 offers quite some goodies for MPEG-4 support right out of the box, but some things appear to be made not so accurate. The component responsible for video decoding is Microsoft DTV-DVD Video Decoder (also known as Microsoft MPEG-2 Video Decoder), available with DirectShow interface. It offers video…
DirectShow Spy is updated with a few new features: retroactive Intelligent Connect trace log output for IAMGraphBuilderCallback-related activity process name based black list to selectively exclude processes from spying Intelligent Connect Trace The utility received a capability to read back from its own log file (DirectShowSpy.log, located typically in C:\ProgramData directory) and reconstruct graph building…
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…