// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Windows 10 Anniversary Update brought a breaking change that removed, in many cases, hardware compressed video formats from video capture APIs, even though the devices themselves are known to have respective capabilities. DirectShow MJPEG frame type in USB cameras is not working after Windows 10 anniversary update (1607) Webcam MJPG capture streams are unavailable on…
Two H.264 MP4 files, close one to another. The files are playable, a sort of: Windows desktop players (except Media Foundation based), QuickTime, Android and iOS devices play them. The files are not flawless but make sense, hence the glitches. There is a problem with the second file, which is rejected by Twitter “Your media…
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…
This is not really practical – just some fun stuff and attempt to make use of a readily available code snippet. So… reference signal in Unity 3D game engine through Media Foundation and Direct3D 11. It is basically Low-Level Native Plugin example project (limited to Direct3D 11 and Visual Studio 2015), which works together with…
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…
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…