IQualityControl interface (strmif.h)

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The IQualityControl interface provides support for quality control. An object exposes this interface if it can generate or receive quality-control messages. This includes renderer filters (which typically generate quality control messages), pins (which receive them), and external quality managers (which also receive them).

A renderer filter generates a quality-control message by calling the IQualityControl::Notify method on the output pin of the upstream filter. The upstream filter either handles the message or passes it upstream.

An application can implement its own quality-control manager. Call IQualityControl::SetSink on the renderer to designate the quality-control manager as the recipient for quality-control messages. Calling this method overrides the default handling of quality-control messages.

However, most applications will not implement their own quality-control managers; and aside from this special case, applications typically do not use this interface. For more information, see Quality-Control Management

Inheritance

The IQualityControl interface inherits from the IUnknown interface. IQualityControl also has these types of members:

Methods

The IQualityControl interface has these methods.

IQualityControl::Notify The Notify method notifies the filter that a quality change is requested.
IQualityControl::SetSink The SetSink method sets the IQualityControl object that will receive quality messages.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]
Target Platform	Windows
Header	strmif.h (include Dshow.h)