Tag: utility

DirectShowSpy: Automated Media Sample Traces, Load Trace from File

Some time ago DirectShowSpy received a capability to record media sample traces (in specific points of the pipeline). DirectShowSpy UI visualized the chronology of the streaming which facilitated detection of various problems, especially out of order media samples, lost or late delivered samples, thread racing conditions. A developer can easily integrate his filters with DirectShowSpy…

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Utility Clearance: Matrox DSX SDK Capabilities

The tool gathers and formats capture capabilities of hardware accessible via Matrox DSX SDK: Matrox DSX SDK is a feature-rich development toolkit that enables Matrox’s industry-leading DSX hardware capabilities. OEMs use this hardware and software to build complete solutions that ensure 24/7 on-air reliability in a broadcast environment. Matrox DSX SDK customers have access to…

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DirectShowFileMediaSamples Update: Command Line Mode

It appears that the tool was never mentioned before (just mentioned in general software list). The application takes a media file on the input and applies respective DirectShow demultiplexer to list individual media samples. for MP4 files the application attempts to use GDCL MPEG-4 Demultiplexer first it is possible to filter a specific track/stream ability…

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Enumeration of DirectShow Capture Capabilities (Video and Audio)

The tool appears to be unmentioned here, and this is to fix the problem. DirectShowCaptureCapabilities application enumerates video and audio capture devices and lists their typical DirectShow properties, specifically: Moniker names (including USB identification) Pins and property pages Supported interfaces Formats and capabilities available through IAMStreamConfig interface Video and audio devices The utility allows to save output and…

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DeckLinkCapabilities: A Printout of Capabilities of Blackmagic Design/DeckLink Hardware

The tool provides a user- (well, actually a developer-) friendly printout of capabilities accessible via Blackmagic Design DeckLink SDK for DeckLink series of hardware. This covers features of DeckLink and Intensity series of hardware for video/audio capture, accessible via vendor’s SDK. The data is printed out in Markdown format, easy to read on its own…

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