Media Foundation Development - Audio and Video Development
Recent update: 2008-3-21

Welcome to the Media Foundation Development Forum!

1415 byte By PrakashChannagiri-MSFT at 2008-3-7
Media Foundation is the next generation multimedia platform that we are shipping with Vista. We have built this platform from the ground up to embrace the wave of next generation premium content. Our focus has been on robustness, audio video quality, and seamless interoperability thereby making ...

About Windows Media Player

272 byte By yhl at 2008-3-6
Hello I have two problems: 1.Does the Windows Media Player 11 SDKs have the function of get the audio frequency fingerprint? 2.How I use the WMP SDK to write a value in just listen to of song, close WMP later, the value still exists. Thanks

Windows Media player security

277 byte By AmirAlis at 2008-3-5
Hi i have a windows XP pro with sp2, when ever that i want to play SWF object windows media player 10 said: "Your current security setting do not allow this action" what should i do, i change my security option but it doesnt any effect on it. tanks

windows media player C# codeing

145 byte By AmirAlis at 2008-3-3
Hi I have two different sound card in my computer, how can i change the defult sound card for media player object in C#. Tanks

using WMVencoder9 .. :(

612 byte By JakobSternberg at 2008-3-1
′my question is: how do you compress more than one file at a time..i have about 20 avi's that i would like to compress thru WMVencoder, and one by one its going fine.. but i cant seem to figure out how to do a quelist.. i can add them yes, but next option is where to "save" your ...

.SWF version supported in Windows Media Player?

354 byte By garthpatil at 2008-2-28
Hi,Sorry if this is miscategorized, but I couldn't find a forum specific to Windows Media Player. Does anyone know what versions of Flash .SWF files are supported by the various versions of Windows Media Player (9/10/11)? The documentation indicates that .SWF files are supported, but gives no ...

Reading sample from buffer,writestreamsample dropped all video sample?

672 byte By cyberlink at 2008-2-27
Body: I read a live source stream from a network port,then i put the received sample of getting throngh onstreamsample function to a queue buffer,waiting for a sencond,i get the sample from buffer,using writer's writestreamsample to send it to writer.The result asf file's size are ...

Directx 10

117 byte By MasterSilver at 2008-2-26
I wanted to know if to run directx 10, I have to change windows(xp to vista) and to buy a new graphical plate?

Question about audio fingerprinting

353 byte By ukalyan at 2008-2-25
hi,The only information I can find about Audio Fingerprinting is in WM10 it is done using metadata and in WM11 it is waveform fingerprinting. I have tested that and its working fine. But is there any literature on fingerprinting and is there any API for fingerprinting (finding id3 tag, album ...

How to play DVD disk in windowless mode?

2042 byte By Closer at 2008-2-24
I am using the VMR7 or VMR9 Windowless mode to render the DVD disk in the VC++ 2003/win32. I am using following instructions - http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/directshow/htm/usingwindowlessmodewiththevmr.asp - ...

How to write a presenter of evr

635 byte By Fei-tian at 2008-2-23
Hello,I wrote a presenter for evr, I got message MFVP_MESSAGE_INVALIDATEMEDIATYPE 3 times, but I never got MFVP_MESSAGE_PROCESSINPUTNOTIFY message. The window just show white screen.And someone calls queryinterface with iid {83A4CE40-7710-494B-A893-A472049AF630}, but I cannot search this GUID ...

Extracting DVD video

708 byte By Koruyucu at 2008-2-22
Hi everyone! I'm trying to write application to work with dvd disks recorded with camcoder. Its quite simple all i want it to do is to save save selected chapter to disk and encode it. To make it more convenient encoding will be done in 2 steps :copy selected chapter/title to the diskencode ...

Changes in Build 5456

410 byte By MarcGBeauchamp at 2008-2-22
I just finished upgrading from 5381 to 5456. There seem to have been some changes in the API. Some events have dissapeared, some methods parameters have changed.Would it be possible to get more information on changes, bug fixes, etc.The documentation in the new Windows SDK seems acurate but the ...

Audio

132 byte By n0valyfe at 2008-2-21
Where on these forums could i post a sound related problem i need answering? i need to know because im new to these forums thank you

Live Audio/Video Streaming

287 byte By SohailGhanchi at 2008-2-20
Aslamualaykum, Hi, This is Sohail from khi, Pak. Iike to do <font color="#ff0000">Live Audio Streaming </font>by Windows Media Player anybody now how can i do that? Its is possible on my web page hosting or i get seprate hosting for this purpose? Regards, Sohail

Questions on DXVA2.0 and Media foundation

621 byte By MikkelHaugstrup at 2008-2-19
Hi1. How does IDirectXVideoAccelerationService, IDirectXVideoDecoderService and IDirectXVideoProcessorService differ?2. Will IDirectXVideoProcessorService make it possible to program the Video Processor as such on the nVidia Geforce 6/7 series, so ISV's could implement their own algortihms for ...

Do we have WMVCORE.DLL for x64 applications?

238 byte By RobinPeng at 2008-2-18
I'm using WM SDK in my application to generate WMV files. Just now I have got a task to port my application to x64 platform. I wonder if I need a new 64bit version of WMVCORE.DLL (or .lib)? If so, where can I get it? Thanks.

Re-routing the Windows system sounds?

286 byte By Mozartkugel at 2008-2-18
I would like to hook into the Windows system sound engine to output the Windows system sounds not to the default output device set in Windows sound settings but to an other device. Is this possible? (No, I don't want to change the default output device in Windows sound settings).

DRM Novice - Help Required.

469 byte By TanmaySony at 2008-2-17
Hello,I am novice in DRM field.I want to implement a DRM solution (client and server side) with .NET 2.0, with use of Microsoft DRM.Here are my most fundamental questions:1. How can I CONVERT the format of media content file? what are the possible source file formats supported? How do I ...

MFT_MESSAGE_SET_D3D_MANAGER

273 byte By Fei-tian at 2008-2-16
Hi, all: How can I get MFT_MESSAGE_SET_D3D_MANAGER from ProcessMessage in a MFT? And where to assign MF_TOPONODE_D3DAWARE and MF_SA_D3D_AWARE attributes ? BTW, is it possible a MediaSource to get the D3DManager interface ? Thanks Fei-tian

How to output 2 streams into evr

468 byte By Fei-tian at 2008-2-15
Hi, all:I know EVR can mix two streams into a single frame. But when I create such topology and call start, I get a error code: MF_E_TOPO_UNSUPPORTED.So I have two questions:1) How to create such topology about mixing multi-streams into a single evr ?2) Due to async programming style, it is ...

Sound card driver causes blue screen

400 byte By teJECSke at 2008-2-15
I just don't know where to report, but i got beta for find and report bugs, so i do so.I installed driver for my creative sbpci 128 having ensoniq chipset, it works fine except if it is not disabled at boot vistabeta2 got blue screen, and reboot, if i disable sound card in safe mode, it boots ...

Missing WMCreateWriter in wmvcore.lib

240 byte By A.M. at 2008-2-15
wmvcore.lib shipped with DirectShow (included in the latest PSDK) doesn't list many functions exported by wmvcore.dll (e.g. WMCreateWriter). Does anybody know the reason for this and where I can obtain wmvcore.lib that matches wmvcore.dll?

audio/video streaming with .net framework 3 ?

244 byte By NehalSheth at 2008-2-15
Hello Friends, I wanna develop an application of video conferencing using .net framework 3. For that i wanna know is the .net framework 3.0 supports audio and video streaming ? If yes then how ? Thanks in advance. Nehal.

.Net Framework 3.0

164 byte By spshah at 2008-2-15
Hi everyone, i want to know whether .Net framework 3.0 supports audio and video streaming. Would it be possible to develop such application with WinFX.

How to dynamic change topology ?

165 byte By Fei-tian at 2008-2-14
Hi all: If a mediasource will change video format (codec) according to user operations, how do I change MFT dynamically ? Thanks ^_^

How to dynamic change topology ?

168 byte By Fei-tian at 2008-2-14
Hi all: If a mediasource will change video format (codec) according to user operations, how do I change MFT dynamically ? Thanks ^_^

How to output 2 streams into evr

470 byte By Fei-tian at 2008-2-13
Hi, all: I know EVR can mix two streams into a single frame. But when I create such topology and call start, I get a error code: MF_E_TOPO_UNSUPPORTED.So I have two questions:1) How to create such topology about mixing multi-streams into a single evr ?2) Due to async programming style, it is ...

.Net Framework 3.0

166 byte By spshah at 2008-2-13
Hi everyone, i want to know whether .Net framework 3.0 supports audio and video streaming. Would it be possible to develop such application with WinFX.

audio/video streaming with .net framework 3 ?

249 byte By NehalSheth at 2008-2-12
Hello Friends, I wanna develop an application of video conferencing using .net framework 3. For that i wanna know is the .net framework 3.0 supports audio and video streaming ? If yes then how ? Thanks in advance. Nehal.

Questions on DXVA2.0 and Media foundation

629 byte By MikkelHaugstrup at 2008-2-11
Hi 1. How does IDirectXVideoAccelerationService, IDirectXVideoDecoderService and IDirectXVideoProcessorService differ? 2. Will IDirectXVideoProcessorService make it possible to program the Video Processor as such on the nVidia Geforce 6/7 series, so ISV's could implement their own algortihms ...

Is the media foundation the suitable starting point for my app?

1284 byte By woodced at 2008-2-10
Hi, I am trying to write an app that does the following: 1. Displays fullscreen the input to a composite video/audio input of a video capture device. 2. Realtime overlays audio peak data in a VU meter style. 3. Is able to play only left-channel and/or right channel information from the ...

WME 9 SDK Preview Problem.

1153 byte By FADI_KHAN at 2008-2-10
Hi, I am working on a project Using WME 9 SDK in which Video Clips are creating every 30 min. the source is TVTuner Cable. using following technique for breaking the clips in 30 min.(using timer) Step 1. stop encodingStep 2. redefine file nameStep 3. start encoding Every thing working ...

Which OS apps use Media Foundation

408 byte By SeanMcLeod at 2008-2-8
Hi Out of interest which apps bundled with Vista use Media Foundation, e.g. does Windows Media Player use Media Foundation when playing back formats that have Media Foundation codecs, e.g. WMV etc. and uses DirectShow for other media types? And what about Media Center? What about the ...

Using Media Foundation with C# ?

174 byte By CyberSinh at 2008-2-8
Hi, Microsoft will provide managed interface (wrapper?) for Media Foundation in order to use it with .NET? Because Direct Shows is almost unusable with C#... Thanks

Using Capture Device as a Media Source

397 byte By MarcGBeauchamp at 2008-2-7
I am trying to build an application that uses the AUX input as the Media Source.I can enumerate the capture devices just fine. But I want to use the capture device stream as the Media Source in the topology.The documentation on IMFMediaSource mentions that you can generate media data streams ...

How to output a bitmap from a mediasource

3480 byte By Fei-tian at 2008-2-7
Hello, I write a mediasource which can output a bitmap.But It cannot show to screen.No matter the bitmap content, it always shows blank.I try to transform the sample to AYUV format, but it is no used.I guess maybe some media attributes are wrong. but I cannot make sure it.does anyone kindly ...

Problem Solved

598 byte By MarkKaplan at 2008-2-7
I am trying to build the MFT_Grayscale sample project. I simply copied the project from the SDK tree into my personal code development tree and made no changes to the code. It compiles fine however when I try to register the built dll with regsvr32.exe I get the following error message: The ...

MFT_Grayscale.dll call to DllRegisterServer failed

598 byte By MarkKaplan at 2008-2-7
I am trying to build the MFT_Grayscale sample project. I simply copied the project from the SDK tree into my personal code development tree and made no changes to the code. It compiles fine however when I try to register the built dll with regsvr32.exe I get the following error message: The ...

Missing WMCreateWriter in wmvcore.lib

246 byte By A.M. at 2008-2-6
wmvcore.lib shipped with DirectShow (included in the latest PSDK) doesn't list many functions exported by wmvcore.dll (e.g. WMCreateWriter). Does anybody know the reason for this and where I can obtain wmvcore.lib that matches wmvcore.dll?

I need a little help here...

510 byte By yayah_1 at 2008-2-6
I did not know where to post this, so i posted it here. I am running a Windows 98SE and I only have a 16 bit color thing. I would like it to be better, but I do not know how to do so. I can not get Active X on this comp for some reason, but I would like 256 color. Any help will be greatly ...

blend image use VMR9

184 byte By cominfo at 2008-2-5
I blending an image on the video use VMR9,when the video is rendered in it's native size,the image is ok,but when the video is resize(such as 320X240 to 640X480),the image is blured.

Movie Maker 2

269 byte By crystalchunn at 2008-2-5
I have been trying to use Movie Maker 2 on my computer but I am unable to open it. I downloaded it by going through my updates. Is an icon suppose to show up on my desktop, because it didn't, or am I suppose to get to it through my Media Player? Crystal

Movie Maker 2, OTP

269 byte By crystalchunn at 2008-2-4
I have been trying to use Movie Maker 2 on my computer but I am unable to open it. I downloaded it by going through my updates. Is an icon suppose to show up on my desktop, because it didn't, or am I suppose to get to it through my Media Player? Crystal

DirectShow vs. Media Foundation for new application

1068 byte By wtrn at 2008-2-4
Hi Prakash,Please could you answer some questions for me? I am evaluating Media Foundation vs. DirectShow for a new application to be written in C#.The required functionality is:* Decode a large range of video formats and extract individual frames.* Insert individual frames and encode a large ...

MS Digital Image Suite plug-ins

235 byte By thomasn at 2008-2-4
I'm a plug-in developer and want to know if it's possible to obtain EXIF information from the interface to MS Digital Image Suite. Obviously, I'm in the wrong group. I just don't know where to post. Can someone help?

MF_ProtectedPlayback Sample doesn't work for Video on Vista Beta 2:

622 byte By igor1960 at 2008-2-4
1. Installed Vista Beta 2; 2. Installed Vista Beta 2 SDK; 3. Build MF_ProtectedPlayback Sample from provided samples; When starting both Release and/or Debug versions of MF_ProtectedPlayback Sample with both Adminitrative and not-Administrative priv. as well as with DRM and not-DRM Video ...

SDK Media Foundation Sample doesn't work on Vista Beta2?

315 byte By Aurora-r at 2008-2-3
I built Feburary CTP SDK's sample BasicPlayback(MF_BasicPlayback.exe) with Visual C++ 2005. However, this sample doesn't work on Vista Beta2. The operating system prompted me that "Could not initialize the player object (HRESULT = 0xC00D36E3)" Has anyone experienced the same thing? Is there ...

Is the new Media Foundation a replacement of Direct Show?

96 byte By JohnEricson at 2008-2-3
They seem to perform the same task too me. Is Media Foundation supposed to replace Direct Show?

How to write custom codec?

346 byte By zpustc at 2008-2-2
I have the source code of a custom software codec for video compression and decompression. And I expect to package it into plugins so that general media player, such as WMP, can identify my custom video format. And ICCompress can adapt to the codec as well.Does anybody know how to write the ...