Multimedia Streaming Sample Code
[The feature associated with this page, DirectShow, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation. Those features have been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation instead of DirectShow, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]
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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 provides sample code that implements the multimedia streaming interfaces. The video streaming sample code demonstrates how to read a file and render it to a primary Microsoft® DirectDraw® surface. For brevity, this code contains no error checking.
The second code sample demonstrates how to use the audio streaming interfaces to stream audio data.
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