What's New in the DirectShow SDK?


The Microsoft® DirectShow™ SDK (formerly the Microsoft ActiveMovie™ SDK) is now part of the Microsoft DirectX® Media SDK. Features added since ActiveMovie 1.0 include video and audio capture and compression, device enumeration, digital versatile disc (DVD) support, digital video (DV) support, device control and timecode support, and multimedia streaming. See the topics in the following lists for details of all the DirectShow SDK's new features.

Articles

Multimedia Streaming

DirectDrawEx

DirectShow COM Interfaces

The following lists group the new DirectShow interfaces by area. In addition, the Multimedia Streaming Reference contains interfaces specific to Multimedia Streaming.

Capture, Compression, Device Enumeration, and Windows Driver Model (WDM) Capture Interfaces

DirectSound Interface

Digital Versatile Disc (DVD), Closed Captioning, Property Set, and Video Port (VP) Interfaces

Device Control and Timecode Interfaces

Memory Allocation/Media Sample Interfaces

Samples

Filters

The following lists group the filters by category. Some filters can fit in more than one category so be sure to look at the different categories to see what new filters are available.

Capture, WDM Capture, and File Writing Filters

Digital Video (DV) Filters

Cutlist Filter

Closed Captioning Filters

Compression and Decompression Filters (Codecs)

Parser, Renderer, and Mixer Filters

DVD and Tee Filters

Classes, Functions, and Macros

The following material relating to the ActiveMovie Control has been significantly updated:

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