Tag: Source

Private DMO

Started as Is it possible to use local component in DLL? on microsoft.public.vc.atl newsgroup. The question is to embed a custom DirectX Media Object (DMO) into executable so that it is only available to proprietary application and not to entire system and could be reused in other applications. If in particular this DMO should be…

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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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An effect of excessive RGB conversion on video streaming performance (continued)

This continues the topic raised by previous post. As fairly noticed by The March Hare, video renderer is using hardware overlay and the benchmark is incorrect if we are to extrapolate the performance to scenario with multiple video renderers. So, an updated test application creates 16 video renderers with 16 threads pumping two meida samples…

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An effect of excessive RGB conversion onto video streaming perofrmance

Started here: How can I overlay timestamp on the image? on microsoft.public.win32.programmer.directx.video Let us see if RGB conversion adds any noticeable effect on streaming YUY2 video, typical output of video decompressor. As a reference I am taking a simple YUY2 source -> Video Mixing Render Filter (VMR) graph, where source filter streams the same pre-allocated…

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