// Oprogramowanie Roman Ryltsov
Media Foundation as video capture API is inflexible. At Microsoft – besides standard Media Foundation problems of backward compatibility, availability of developer tools and overall awkwardness – they decided to no longer offer video capture extensibility with Media Foundation. Be happy with MFEnumDeviceSources and don’t go anywhere else. They explain that they already provided support…
Pulling this out from Blackmagic Design Forum thread: Generally, the recommended interface to the capture cards is the DeckLink API. A DirectShow interface is available, but provides a subset of the functionality available from the complete DeckLink API. Please note that the older, user-space DirectShow filters (DeckLink Video Capture) are deprecated in favour of the…
Logitech’s C930e camera is the first one to be compliant with UVC 1.5 specification: First 1080p HD webcam to support H.264 with Scalable Video Coding and UVC 1.5 encoding technology. […] The result is a smoother video stream in applications like Skype for Business and Microsoft® Lync® 2013. More marketing information there at Logitech. More…
Visual Studio offers COM reference isolation to applications so that COM dependency is used in a usual way, and in the same time there is no need in its registration or another copy of the COM server might be registered system wide, or using per-user registration, and the application would still prefer a local copy…
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…
As MSDN says, The PolyTextOut function draws several strings using the font and text colors currently selected in the specified device context. The article also mentions ExtTextOut as a simpler sister function: To draw a single string of text, the application should call the ExtTextOut function. It looks like the API is not so Unicode friendly. Code as simple as PolyTextOut(L”Мама мыла раму”); PolyTextOut(L”Mother…
A colleague raised a question that realloc does better than free + malloc because allocated memory block is never being actually shrunk and reallocations to smaller size following by reallocations to larger (but still not larger than one of the previous) do not lead to heap locks and actual underlying heap memory block reallocations. While…