Tag: problem

Little known DirectShow VMR-7 snapshot problem

There is so little information about this problem (not really a bug, rather a miscalculation) out there because it is coming up with customized Video Mixing Renderer Filter 7 and there is no problem with straightforward use. In windowless mode the renderer is accepting media samples and displays them as configured. IVMRWindowlessControl::GetCurrentImage method is available…

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WinHTTP escaping problem

WinHttpCrackUrl and WinHttpCreateUrl API functions are breaking URL string into components and recompose back to string. There was a mess with passwords and security issues since when putting password into URL is no more acceptable. Experienced users might remember the times when URL could embed password, e.g. ftp://john:mysecretpassword@host.com/path. Password is lo longer accepted by major…

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