Basic DirectShow Tasks
[The feature associated with this page, DirectShow, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation. Those features have been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation instead of DirectShow, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]
This section describes some basic tasks in DirectShow. These tasks are relevant in many application scenarios; they are not specific to any one domain. This section contains the following topics:
- Video Rendering
- Responding to Events
- Enumerating Devices and Filters
- Enumerating Objects in a Filter Graph
- General Graph-Building Techniques
- Seeking the Filter Graph
- Setting the Graph Clock
- Debugging in DirectShow
- Displaying a Filter's Property Pages
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