IWMProfile interface
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The IWMProfile interface is the primary interface for a profile object. A profile object is used to configure custom profiles. You can use IWMProfile to create, delete, or modify stream configuration objects and mutual exclusion objects. You can also set and retrieve general information about the profile. To access all the features of the profile object, you should use IWMProfile3, which inherits from IWMProfile and IWMProfile2.
IWMProfile is also accessible through the reader object, where you can use it to get information about the streams of a file that is loaded in the reader. When accessing IWMProfile from the reader, you can make changes to the profile, but none of the changes can be saved to the file. It is often handy to use the profile of an existing file as the foundation of a new profile. The synchronous reader supports IWMProfile in the same way as the reader.
The profile information obtained through the reader or synchronous reader does not come from a .prx file. The reader uses the information in the ASF file to assemble the stream configurations. Thus certain profile information, like the name and description, are not available through the reader.
There are several ways to obtain a pointer to an IWMProfile interface. The profile manager has methods to create a new profile and to access existing profiles. All of these methods set an IWMProfile pointer. When reading a file, a pointer to IWMProfile can be obtained by calling the QueryInterface method of any reader interface. Likewise, any interface of the synchronous reader object can obtain a pointer with a call to QueryInterfaceIWMProfile3.
Members
The IWMProfile interface inherits from the IUnknown interface. IWMProfile also has these types of members:
Methods
The IWMProfile interface has these methods.
| Method | Description |
|---|---|
| AddMutualExclusion | Adds a mutual exclusion object to the profile. |
| AddStream | Adds a stream to the profile. |
| CreateNewMutualExclusion | Creates a mutual exclusion object for the profile. |
| CreateNewStream | Creates a stream configuration object for the profile. |
| GetDescription | Retrieves the description of the profile. |
| GetMutualExclusion | Retrieves a mutual exclusion object from the profile. |
| GetMutualExclusionCount | Retrieves the number of mutual exclusion objects in the profile. |
| GetName | Retrieves the name of the profile. |
| GetStream | Retrieves a stream, using an index number, from the profile. |
| GetStreamByNumber | Retrieves a stream, using the number of the stream, from the profile. |
| GetStreamCount | Retrieves the number of streams in the profile. |
| GetVersion | Retrieves the version number of Microsoft Windows Media Services in the profile. |
| ReconfigStream | Enables changes made to a stream configuration to be included in the profile. |
| RemoveMutualExclusion | Removes a mutual exclusion object from the profile. |
| RemoveStream | Removes a stream from the profile. |
| RemoveStreamByNumber | Removes a stream from the profile. |
| SetDescription | Specifies the description of the profile. |
| SetName | Specifies the name of the profile. |
For information about which interfaces can be obtained by using the QueryInterface method of this interface, see the topic for the object on which this interface is implemented.