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Bitmap Functions

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

The Wxutil.h header file in the DirectShow base classes provides functions and macros to help convert between VIDEOINFOHEADER and BITMAPINFO structures.

Programming element Description

ContainsPalette

Checks if the video image contains a color palette.

GetBitCount

Finds the number of bits per pixel.

GetBitmapFormatSize

Finds the size (in bytes) needed to build a VIDEOINFOHEADER structure and related data.

GetBitmapPalette

Finds the first palette entry in a VIDEOINFOHEADER structure.

GetBitmapSize

Finds the size (in bytes) needed to hold an image.

GetBitmapSubtype

Finds the GUID subtype for a given bitmap info header structure.

GetSubtypeName

Finds the (debug) name for a given GUID subtype.

GetTrueColorType

Finds the GUID subtype for a given bitmap header.

These functions are made available to help manage VIDEOINFOHEADER structures, which are used throughout DirectShow to describe video data streams.

Although similar to the BITMAPINFO structure used in Microsoft® Win32® and existing multimedia, VIDEOINFOHEADER also adds some new video-specific fields.

Global data Description

bits555

Array of color bitmasks for an RGB 555 bitmap.

bits565

Array of color bitmasks for an RGB 565 bitmap.

bits888

Array of color bitmasks for an RGB 24-bit bitmap.

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Reference

Utility Functions