Multimedia Streaming Objects

[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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.]

Note

This API is deprecated. New applications should not use it.

 

The following table describes the multimedia streaming objects.

CLSID	Description	Interfaces supported
CLSID_AMMediaTypeStream	Can create media samples for any DirectShow-supported data type	IAMMediaStream IMediaStream IPin IMemInputPin
CLSID_AMAudioData	Implementation of IAudioData audio container object.	IAudioData
CLSID_AMDirectDrawStream	DirectDraw media stream that can be added to a DirectShow multimedia stream.	IAMMediaStream IMediaStream IDirectDrawMediaStream IPin IMemInputPin
CLSID_AMMultiMediaStream	DirectShow implementation of multimedia stream.	IAMMultiMediaStream IMultiMediaStream
CLSID_MediaStreamFilter	Provides multimedia streaming functionality for the CLSID_AMMultiMediaStream object through the IAMMultiMediaStream interface.	IBaseFilter
N/A	Samples created by the CLSID_AMMediaTypeStream object.	IStreamSample IMediaSample IMediaSample2
N/A	Samples created by the DirectDraw stream.	IStreamSample IDirectDrawStreamSample IMediaSample