VideoEncodingProperties Class

Definition

Namespace:

Windows.Media.MediaProperties

Describes the encoding properties of a video stream.

C#

[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ContractVersion(typeof(Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract), 65536)]
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingBehavior(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.MarshalingType.Agile)]
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.Threading(Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ThreadingModel.Both)]
[Windows.Foundation.Metadata.Activatable(65536, "Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract")]
public sealed class VideoEncodingProperties

Inheritance

Object VideoEncodingProperties

Attributes

ActivatableAttribute ContractVersionAttribute MarshalingBehaviorAttribute ThreadingAttribute

Implements

IMediaEncodingProperties

Windows requirements

Device family	Windows 10 (introduced in 10.0.10240.0)
API contract	Windows.Foundation.UniversalApiContract (introduced in v1.0)

Remarks

Properties that are manually set are ignored for VideoEncodingProperties created from one of the presets encoding profiles: CreateH264 and CreateMpeg2.

The encoding quality Auto is a special preset that fills in the proper settings based on the current camera settings. Settings that are manually modified are ignored. For example, if you create a preset profile using one the static create methods, such as CreateM4a, and specify Auto as the encoding quality, any changes you make to the properties will be overwritten with values based on the current camera settings.

Note

It is possible to create an VideoEncodingProperties that is not supported on a particular device. For example, you may successfully call CreateH264, but if an h264 encoder is not present on the device, attempting to encode video with the properties returned from this method will fail. For a list of the codecs present by default for each device family, see Supported codecs..

For how-to guidance for setting the encoding properties for captured video, see Basic photo, video, and audio capture with MediaCapture.

Version history

Windows version	SDK version	Value added
1607	14393	StereoscopicVideoPackingMode
1703	15063	CreateHevc
1703	15063	SphericalVideoFrameFormat
1803	17134	Copy

Constructors

VideoEncodingProperties()

Creates a new instance of the VideoEncodingProperties class.

Properties

Bitrate	Gets or sets the video bit rate.
FrameRate	Gets or sets the video frame rate.
Height	Gets or sets the video image height.
PixelAspectRatio	Gets or sets the pixel aspect ratio.
ProfileId	Gets or sets the media format profile.
Properties	Gets additional format properties for the video stream.
SphericalVideoFrameFormat	Gets a value that specifies the spherical video format of a video frame.
StereoscopicVideoPackingMode	Gets a value indicating the stereoscopic video packing mode of the video stream.
Subtype	Gets or sets the subtype of the format.
Type	Gets the format type.
Width	Gets or sets the video image width.

Methods

Copy()	Creates a copy of the VideoEncodingProperties object.
CreateAv1()	Creates an instance of VideoEncodingProperties for an AOMedia Video 1 (AV1) video.
CreateH264()	Creates an instance of VideoEncodingProperties for a H.264 video.
CreateHevc()	Creates an instance of VideoEncodingProperties for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC).
CreateMpeg2()	Creates an instance of VideoEncodingProperties for a MPEG-2 video.
CreateUncompressed(String, UInt32, UInt32)	Creates an instance of VideoEncodingProperties for a uncompressed video.
CreateVp9()	Creates an instance of VideoEncodingProperties for a VP9 video.
GetFormatUserData(Byte[])	Gets the media format user data.
SetFormatUserData(Byte[])	Sets the media format user data.

Applies to

See also

• Basic photo, video, and audio capture with MediaCapture