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Step 7: Transport Controls

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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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

This topic is step 7 of the tutorial Audio/Video Playback in DirectShow. The complete code is shown in the topic DirectShow Playback Example.

The last step is to add transport controls (play, pause, and stop). To play the file, call IMediaControl::Run.

HRESULT DShowPlayer::Play()
{
    if (m_state != STATE_PAUSED && m_state != STATE_STOPPED)
    {
        return VFW_E_WRONG_STATE;
    }

    HRESULT hr = m_pControl->Run();
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {
        m_state = STATE_RUNNING;
    }
    return hr;
}

To pause, call IMediaControl::Pause.

HRESULT DShowPlayer::Pause()
{
    if (m_state != STATE_RUNNING)
    {
        return VFW_E_WRONG_STATE;
    }

    HRESULT hr = m_pControl->Pause();
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {
        m_state = STATE_PAUSED;
    }
    return hr;
}

To stop, call IMediaControl::Stop.

HRESULT DShowPlayer::Stop()
{
    if (m_state != STATE_RUNNING && m_state != STATE_PAUSED)
    {
        return VFW_E_WRONG_STATE;
    }

    HRESULT hr = m_pControl->Stop();
    if (SUCCEEDED(hr))
    {
        m_state = STATE_STOPPED;
    }
    return hr;
}

Audio/Video Playback in DirectShow

DirectShow Playback Example

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