About the Multimedia Streaming Architecture
[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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.]
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These APIs are deprecated. Applications should use the Sample Grabber filter or implement a custom filter to get data from a DirectShow filter graph.
This article describes the architecture of Multimedia Streaming. It contains the following sections.
- Advantages of Multimedia Streaming
- Multimedia Streaming Object and Interface Hierarchy
- Creating Multimedia Stream Objects and Stream Samples
- Using Multimedia Streams in Applications
- Sharing Data Between Streams
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