// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Another example of a negligence with a cost of incompatibility and enormous amount of support time. Ahead Nero installs a number of DirectShow filters into $(Program Files)\Common Files\Ahead\DSFilter directory. One of the files is NeResize.ax and it hosts a Nero Resize filter. Let us take a closer look: CLSID: {30002E0C-C574-481E-A5DE-90AE54A79E10} (note that Nero 8 ships…
I have been receiving comments that Filter Graph Spy tool does not work with Microsoft Vista operating system. I never had a moment to check until recently, and this time I realized that it really does not work. I am definitely aware of dramatic changes introduced with this operating system, and in particular UAC feature,…
With a lot of DirectShow Filter Graphs published on Running Object Table, especially those automatically published by Filter Graph Spy utility, it might be a bit tricky to locate your graph of interest in the list. Filter graphs are published with a textual moniker item name of predefined format, which is recognized by GraphEdit or…
This does not seem to be documented anywhere, so it makes sense to mention. A video decoder, wrapped by DMO Wrapper Filter, will receive preroll media samples with AM_SAMPLE_PREROLL flag (alternatively available using IMediaSample::IsPreroll), but it won’t even forward these samples to the underlying DMO, instead they are just ignored. MSDN says: Preroll samples are…
Recently it was the time to sort out an issue with a video DMO, which outputs YV12 video and in the same time is capable of supporting extended video strides in order to efficiently make a direct connection to Video Mixing Renderer Filters. From past experience, I already knew that some bugs are definitely involved…
In order to obtain a reference audio source and especially useful for debugging purposes, including: audio input device unrelated to physical device, to avoid conditions when device is already in use by someone else non-zero audio signal which is independent of certain speaker or broadcasting service, including one that makes capture, transmission or rendering issues…
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…