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Obtaining a Pointer to the Reader Object (DirectShow)

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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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

In certain cases, for example when determining which data unit extensions are set on a given stream, you may need to access the Reader Object of the Windows Media Format SDK directly. The following function shows how to obtain the IWMReaderAdvanced2 interface on the Reader Object itself:

#include <wmsdk.h>
HRESULT GetReaderAdvanced(IGraphBuilder *pGraph, IWMReaderAdvanced2** pReaderAdvanced2) 
{
  CComPtr<IEnumFilters> pEnum;
  CComPtr<IBaseFilter> pFilter;
  ULONG cFetched;

  HRESULT hr = pGraph->EnumFilters(&pEnum);
  if (FAILED(hr)) 
  {
    return hr;
  }

  while(pEnum->Next(1, &pFilter, &cFetched) == S_OK)
  {
    IWMHeaderInfo *pHI = NULL;
    // Only the WM ASF Reader will have interface. 
    hr = pFilter->QueryInterface(__uuidof(IWMHeaderInfo), (void**)&pHI);
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {
      // We use the IWMDRMReader interface only as a way to get
      // a pointer to the Reader Object.
      CComPtr<IWMDRMReader> pWMDRMReader;
      CComQIPtr<IServiceProvider, &IID_IServiceProvider> pSP;
      hr = pHI->QueryInterface(__uuidof(IServiceProvider), (void**)&pSP);
      if (!pSP)
      {
        return E_NOINTERFACE;
      }
      
      hr = pSP->QueryService(IID_IWMDRMReader, IID_IWMDRMReader, (void **) &pWMDRMReader);
      if (FAILED(hr))
      {
        return hr;
      }

      CComQIPtr<IWMReaderAdvanced2, &IID_IWMReaderAdvanced2> pRA2(pWMDRMReader);
      if (pRA2)
      {
        *pReaderAdvanced2 = pRA2.Detach();
        return S_OK;
      }

    }
    pFilter.Release();
  }
  
  //if we get here, we didn't find the WM ASF Reader
  return E_FAIL;
}

Reading ASF Files in DirectShow