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IMediaEventSink interface (strmif.h)

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[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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.]

Notifies the Filter Graph Manager of events that occur within the filter graph. Filters use this interface to report events. The Filter Graph Manager exposes this interface.

Applications do not use IMediaEventSink. To retrieve events, applications use the IMediaEventEx interface.

Inheritance

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

Methods

The IMediaEventSink interface has these methods.

 
IMediaEventSink::Notify

The Notify method notifies the Filter Graph Manager of an event.

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)