// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
An update for Reference signal source for DirectShow DLLs: the source is doing more accurately RGB subtypes and allows specification whether you want MEDIASUBSTYPE_RGB32 or MEDIASUBSTYPE_ARGB32 additionally the DLL implements Microsoft Media Foundation Media Source for the video stream A more detailed description follows. RGB32 and ARGB32 are very close and share the same byte…
There is an intersting submission for video capture device capabilities for “The Short-Range Intel® RealSenseâ„¢ Camera F200” camera. Another blog user earlier mentioned they have a good stock of the devices with plans to take advantage of new technology. It sounds like the new cameras offer new opportunities for application in user interaction, in ability…
There was a problem reported for registered and relocated DirectShowSpy, which might be causing issues: Deleting faulty DirectShowSpy registry key. Some users that use a 3rd party tool called DirectShowSpy may encounter errors when logging in to XSplit. This can be caused by a fault registry key that is introduced when DirectShowSpy is registered to…
A StackOverflow question (already deleted) asked about use of indices when referencing Video for Windows (VFW) capture devices such as in capGetDriverDescription API and other. Video capture with Video for Windows allowed use of up to 10 devices (did anyone have that many at that time?). The numbering was API specific and at the latest…
Microsoft’s James Daily wrote back in 2011 (and it’s an incredible response in the public forum from MS guy – provided that DirectShow branch of the same forum did not see anything close for 10+ years) about how technologies relate one to another: Hey, I’m the team’s DShow expert. Trevor asked me to take a…
(this is a re-post from StackOverflow) Virtual webcam is typically a software only implementation that application discover as if it is a device with physical representation. The mentioned applications use APIs to work with web cameras and ability to extend the APIs and add your own video source is the way to create a virtual…
A really nasty problem coming from MainConcept AVC/H.264 SDK Encoder was destroying media streaming pipeline. SDK is somewhat old (9.7.9.5738) and the problem might be already fixed, or might be not. The problem is a good example of how a small bug could become a big pain. The problem was coming up in 64-bit Release…