Writing DirectShow Filters
[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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.]
If you are developing a filter for use in a Microsoft DirectShow filter graph, read the articles in this section. In general, you do not have to read this section if you are writing a DirectShow application. Most applications do not access filters or the filter graph at the level discussed in this section.
- Introduction to DirectShow Filter Development
- Building DirectShow Filters
- How Filters Connect
- Data Flow for Filter Developers
- Threads and Critical Sections
- Quality-Control Management
- DirectShow and COM
- Writing Source Filters
- Writing Transform Filters
- Writing Video Renderers
- Writing Capture Filters
- Exposing Capture and Compression Formats
- Registering a Custom File Type
- Creating a Filter Property Page