About the Multimedia Streaming Architecture

Microsoft DirectShow 9.0

About the Multimedia Streaming Architecture

• Note   These APIs are deprecated. Applications should use the Sample Grabber filter or implement a custom filter to get data from a DirectShow filter graph.

This article describes the architecture of Multimedia Streaming. It contains the following sections.

• Advantages of Multimedia Streaming
• Multimedia Streaming Object and Interface Hierarchy
• Creating Multimedia Stream Objects and Stream Samples
• Using Multimedia Streams in Applications
• Sharing Data Between Streams