Video Capture (DirectShow)
[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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.]
This section describes how to use Microsoft DirectShow to write video capture applications.
- About Video Capture in DirectShow
- Selecting a Capture Device
- Previewing Video
- Capturing Video to a File
- Controlling a Capture Graph
- Video Capture Tasks
- Digital Video in DirectShow
- Controlling a DV Camcorder
- Analog Television
- Advanced Capture Topics
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