Media Foundation and DirectShow tips, gotchas and code bits

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7/17/2020

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List of Windows 10 (developer preview) UWP Audio, Video, Camera and Graphics samples

[Update: Fixed broken links] Hello again my fellow media development enthusiasts. It is that time...

Author: James Dailey - MSFT Date: 05/29/2015

BackgroundMediaPlayer architecture on Windows Phone 8.1

I posted this a while back on the MSDN Windows Phone Development forum. I think that it includes...

Author: James Dailey - MSFT Date: 12/25/2014

Capturing raw PCM audio on Windows Phone 8 and 8.1

[This is a copy of the blog post I originally wrote and published on behalf of the WSDS team. The...

Author: James Dailey - MSFT Date: 10/03/2014

Achievement Unlocked: MIDI support added to Windows 8.1 apps

[This is a copy of the blog post I originally wrote and published on behalf of the WSDS team. The...

Author: James Dailey - MSFT Date: 09/05/2014

Using MediaComposition to add background audio to video (Windows Phone 8.1)

One of our friends on the forum pointed out that we really don’t have any good samples on how...

Author: James Dailey - MSFT Date: 06/18/2014

Free Chalk Talk: Light up Your Apps with Sights and Sounds

Hello All, I am giving a live chalk talk on October 16th for interested English speaking engineers....

Author: James Dailey - MSFT Date: 10/02/2013

Mixed Media – Audio & Video – Windows Store vs. Windows Phone 8

Please note: This post is "reprinted" from the "Managing Windows Store Developer Solutions" blog...

Author: James Dailey - MSFT Date: 03/08/2013

Visual Studio 2012's simulator causes video to stop playback when orientation is changed

Just a quick post to let you know that one of my friends on the forums discovered that if you are...

Author: James Dailey - MSFT Date: 08/31/2012

Out of memory errors with the Windows Media Format SDK

Over the last few years I’ve worked with a number of engineers that have reported out of...

Author: James Dailey Date: 06/07/2010

Why are the Multimedia Timer APIs (timeSetEvent) not as accurate as I would expect?

The Multimedia Timer APIs (MM Timer APIs) get their high accuracy by using the Programmable...

Author: James Dailey Date: 07/02/2009

Here is a consolidated list of changes that we can expect for DirectShow Windows 7

Potentially Breaking Change (IMPORTANT): Intelligent Connect adds a level of indirection on Win 7...

Author: James Dailey Date: 05/28/2009

Activating an audio endpoint when not connected causes the device to report incorrect capabilities

The other day we had a major OEM report an issue with the WASAPI. In particular when they found that...

Author: James Dailey Date: 04/28/2009

Exception playing .mp3 & .wma files using embedded WMP from .hta files

We recently had an engineer report a strange exception when displaying .hta files via mshta.exe. If...

Author: James Dailey Date: 04/07/2009

Playing an MPEG1 file in WMP via HTTP returns the wrong duration

A colleague of mine in Japan recently found this very interesting issue in Windows Media Player...

Author: James Dailey Date: 04/07/2009

Calling the Format SDK, DirectShow, Media Foundation or the WASAPI from managed code (C#, VB.net)

I get this series of questions from different developers from around the world at least once a week....

Author: James Dailey Date: 04/01/2009

Where the heck did Microsoft hide the WM Format SDK x64 libraries for Vista? How about XP?

It looks like the 64 bit version of the Windows Media Format SDK .lib static library files are not...

Author: James Dailey Date: 03/27/2009

DirectShow Filter vs. DMO - Ready... Fight!

There are some rather interesting misunderstandings surrounding Direct Media Objects (DMO). I talked...

Author: James Dailey Date: 02/25/2009

Rendering MMS, RTSP and HTTP with DirectShow in Vista and Windows 7

I was talking to a DirectShow engineer the other day that was having issues rendering URLs using...

Author: James Dailey Date: 02/05/2009

“MediaElement.SetSource” throws “AE_INVALID_FORMAT_ERROR” when setting “Stream” sources

When reading a stream from a location such as a media resource object, and then calling...

Author: James Dailey Date: 01/08/2009

“Leave audio at remote computer” Doesn't Work in Windows Server 2008

When connecting to Windows Server 2008 through remote desktop choosing to leave the audio on the...

Author: James Dailey Date: 01/08/2009

Hotfix 929182 not updating Windows Media Encoder 9 components as expected on Vista

I was in training a few weeks ago (WMS 2008 new features) and found that no matter what I did I was...

Author: James Dailey Date: 10/17/2008

Windows Media Player does not negotiate media types for DMO DSP plug-ins on Vista

Here is an interesting issue I ran across writing Windows Media Player (WMP) custom DSP plug-ins....

Author: James Dailey Date: 10/17/2008

Using the WM Encoder to Protect Existing Content with WM DRM

One of the things that a lot of DRM savvy CDNs are doing is to use WM Encoder to add WM DRM to their...

Author: James Dailey Date: 10/14/2008

WMRM SDK 10.1.2 best practice sample code

I wrote this sample code a while back to show how to validate the latest individualization version...

Author: James Dailey Date: 09/26/2008

WM Format SDK DRM returns NS_E_DRM_LICENSE_NOTACQUIRED when license is delivered

I ran into an issue using the WM Format SDK DRM Stub Library the other day. When we were trying to...

Author: James Dailey Date: 09/04/2008

Windows Media Encoder 9 (SDK) Limitations and Support

There are a few limitations to the supportability of the Windows Media Encoder 9 series application...