Programming Microsoft DirectShow for Digital Video and Television

by Pesce, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780735618213
• ISBN10: 0735618216
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-16
• Publisher: Microsoft Press

Summary

This book--written by a cocreator of the popular VRML 3-D graphics language--is ideal for any developer who wants to make the most of the DirectShow API.

Author Biography

Mark D. Pesce helped bring 3-D graphics to the Web as the creator of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML).

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Part I The Basics
DirectShow Concepts	3	(10)
Modular Design	5	(1)
Filters	6	(2)
Filter Types	6	(2)
The Complete Picture	8	(1)
Connections Between Filters	8	(2)
Intelligent Connect	9	(1)
Filter Graphs	10	(3)
The Life Cycle of a Sample	10	(3)
GraphEdit	13	(16)
Introducing GraphEdit	13	(3)
Rendering Media Files	14	(2)
Enumerating Filter Types	16	(1)
Building a Filter Graph from Scratch	16	(6)
Creating Filter Graphs with Rendering Pins	20	(1)
Simplifying Design Tasks with Intelligent Connect	20	(2)
Capturing Video from a Digital Camcorder to Disk	22	(3)
Using Windows Media for File Storage	25	(4)
Setting Filter Properties	26	(3)
Programming DirectShow Applications	29	(22)
COM Basics	30	(4)
Naming and GUIDs	30	(1)
Initializing and Releasing COM	31	(1)
Creating an Instance of a COM Object	31	(1)
Querying Interfaces in COM Objects	32	(1)
Using COM Objects	33	(1)
Configuration of Visual Studio .NET for DirectShow Programming	34	(7)
DSRender: A DirectShow Media Player in C++	35	(1)
Examining main	35	(2)
Understanding DSRender Line by Line	37	(2)
Saving a Filter Graph to a .GRF File	39	(2)
DSBuild: Building a Filter Graph (Mostly) Manually	41	(10)
Examining main, Again	42	(4)
Locating Pins and GetPin	46	(5)
Part II Capture and Editing
Capturing Audio with DirectShow	51	(20)
Capturing Audio with DSAudioCap	51	(14)
Examining the main Function	52	(2)
Enumerating System Devices in DirectShow	54	(3)
Enumerating Input Pins on an Audio Capture Device	57	(3)
Connecting DirectShow Filters	60	(3)
Adding a Filter by Its Class ID	63	(1)
Using the Audio Capture Filter Graph	63	(1)
Adding a File Writer Filter	64	(1)
Executing the DSAudioCap Filter Graph	64	(1)
Adding Audio Compression with DSAudioCapCom	65	(6)
Capturing Audio and Video from a Webcam	71	(10)
Introducing DSWebcamCap	72	(1)
Examining main	72	(4)
Examining and Changing a Filter's Property Pages	76	(2)
Working with the Filter Graph Manager of a Capture Graph	78	(1)
Building the DSWebcamCap Filter Graph	78	(3)
Capture and Output Using DV Camcorders	81	(36)
Examining the DV Format	82	(7)
Using IEEE 1394, FireWire, iLink, and USB 2.0	83	(2)
Understanding DV Stream Types	85	(1)
Issuing Commands	86	(1)
Processing Video and Audio Streams	87	(1)
Building Filter Graphs	88	(1)
Working with WinCap	89	(28)
Modular C++ Programming and WinCap	93	(1)
Initializing WinCap	94	(3)
Selecting a Digital Camcorder	97	(4)
Issuing Transport Commands	101	(1)
Recording an AVI File	102	(3)
Capturing Video to an AVI File	105	(3)
Monitoring Timecode	108	(2)
Getting Device Information	110	(2)
Issuing Raw AV/C Commands	112	(5)
Working with TV Tuners and Pausing Live Video Streams	117	(28)
Working with TV Tuners in DirectShow	119	(4)
Using WinCap for TV Capture	123	(7)
Selecting a TV Tuner Device	123	(5)
Selecting a TV Channel	128	(2)
Buffering DirectShow Media Streams	130	(15)
Building a Buffering TV Application	131	(14)
Editing Media Using DirectShow Editing Services	145	(22)
Understanding DES Concepts	146	(5)
Listing DES Effects	148	(3)
Programming DES	151	(16)
Creating a Timeline and Track Group	151	(1)
Adding a Track to a Timeline	152	(1)
Adding a Source Clip	153	(1)
Adding a Transition	154	(1)
Setting Transition Properties	155	(1)
Determining the Media Type of a Source Clip	156	(2)
Adding Audio Tracks	158	(2)
Rendering a Preview Movie	160	(2)
Rendering a Timeline to an AVI File	162	(2)
Improving Video Output Quality	164	(3)
Using the Video Mixing Renderer	167	(24)
Video Renderers Available to DirectShow Programmers	168	(4)
The (Plain Old Vanilla) Video Renderer	168	(1)
The Overlay Mixer	169	(1)
The Video Mixing Renderer 7	170	(1)
The Video Mixing Renderer 9	171	(1)
Opening the Hood of the VMR	172	(3)
Operating the VMR	173	(2)
Working with the VMR: A Picture-in-Picture Application	175	(16)
Initializing the VMR	176	(3)
Programming the VMR for Picture-in-Picture Display	179	(3)
Programming the VMR ProcAmp	182	(5)
Using Direct3D with the VMR	187	(4)
Part III DirectShow Filters for Video Processing
Writing a DirectShow Transform Filter	191	(34)
Examining Data Flow Across the Filter Graph	192	(10)
Understanding Media Types	195	(3)
Working with Media Samples	198	(1)
Connecting Pins Together	199	(2)
Selecting a Base Class for a DirectShow Filter	201	(1)
Exploring YUVGray	202	(23)
Creating the Class Definition for YUVGray	203	(1)
Implementing Media Type Selection in a Transform Filter	204	(4)
Selecting Buffer Size in a Transform Filter	208	(3)
Implementing the Transform Method	211	(12)
Using the YUVGray Filter	223	(2)
Using the Sample Grabber Filter	225	(40)
Exploring the Histogram Application	227	(13)
Creating a Filter Graph Containing a Sample Grabber	228	(5)
Defining the Sample Grabber Callback Object	233	(3)
Processing Sample Grabber Media Samples	236	(4)
Exploring the Grabber Sample Source Code	240	(25)
Defining and Implementing the Filter Class	241	(8)
Defining and Implementing the Allocator Class	249	(6)
Defining and Implementing the Input Pin Class	255	(10)
Writing DirectShow Source Filters	265	(24)
Source Filter Types	265	(3)
Source Filter Basics	268	(2)
PushSource Source Filter	270	(11)
Implementing the Source Filter Class	271	(1)
Implementing the Source Filter Output Pin Class	272	(3)
Negotiating Connections on a Source Filter	275	(2)
Implementing Media Sample Creation Methods	277	(4)
Seek Functionality on a Source Filter	281	(8)
Creating and Working with DirectX Media Objects	289	(22)
Looking Inside a DMO	290	(1)
Using an Audio Delay DMO Within a DirectShow Application	291	(3)
Designing and Coding the SimpleDelay DMO	294	(17)
Implementing the DMO Media and Buffer Negotiation Methods	298	(3)
Implementing DMO Internal Methods	301	(1)
Implementing DMO Data Processing Methods	302	(5)
Implementing the IMediaObjectInPlace Methods	307	(4)
Part IV Advanced Topics
Understanding the AVI File Format	311	(16)
The AVI File Header	312	(1)
Chunks and Lists	313	(1)
The AVI Header Chunk	313	(2)
The Stream Header Chunk	315	(2)
The Stream Format Chunk	317	(2)
The Stream Data List	319	(2)
AVI Index Entries	321	(2)
DV Video in the AVI Format	323	(4)
Windows Media Applications	327	(50)
ASF Files	329	(1)
Windows Media Profiles	330	(1)
Windows Media SDK and Encoding Tools	331	(3)
DirectShow and Windows Media	334	(19)
MakeASF: Using DirectShow and Windows Media in an Application	337	(16)
Adding Data Unit Extensions to Windows Media	353	(13)
Implementing Callback Objects for Windows Media	366	(7)
A MPEG Format Support in DirectShow	373	(1)
MPEG-1	373	(1)
MPEG Layer 3 Audio (MP3)	373	(1)
MPEG-2	374	(1)
MPEG-4	375	(2)
B The DirectShow Transform Filter Wizard	377	(4)
Requirements	377	(1)
Installing the Transform Filter Wizards	377	(1)
Using the DirectShow Filter Wizard	378	(1)
Implementing Your Filter	379	(1)
Installing the Filter	380	(1)
C Optimizing File Input and Output in Digital Media Applications	381	(8)
Developer Considerations	381	(4)
Blocks and Clusters	381	(2)
Writing Data Blocks	383	(1)
Extending Files	384	(1)
Developer Summary	385	(1)
User Considerations	385	(4)
Hard Disk Partition	385	(1)
File System	386	(1)
Cluster Size	387	(1)
Hardware	388	(1)
User Summary	388	(1)
Index	389