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For your own good we enforced real-time protection…

Ostatnio spedzilem dosc duzo czasu na sprawdzaniu problemu z nieoczekiwanie slaba wydajnoscia w… Oh wait I am writing in English here. So, recently I spent rather a lot of time checking a problem with...

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Windows MP4 shell property handler sometimes destroys your media data

Some version of Microsoft Windows OS have rather dangerous subsystem known as MP4 property sheet handler (“MF MPEG-4 Property Handler” to be exact). Programmatically, you would use API like...

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VCam: A Journey from Usenet to GitHub

Throughout many years of hashtag#DirectShow development, one project stood out with unwavering popularity: the Windows Virtual Camera sample ????. Originally authored by Vivek in 2005 or even earlier,...

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From Webcams to 24-Hour Recordings: A Decade of Medical Video Evolution

For over a decade, we have been supporting a customer’s product in the field of medical video. Our journey began with their attempts of previous years to record from webcams — an endeavor that was...

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Custom Filters to the Rescue: Diagnosing and Solving Media Stream Woes

In a recent customer project, we encountered a longstanding problem related to a broadcasted media stream captured by software. Our customer application, built on the hashtag#DirectShow framework, was...

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Legacy Filters, Modern Solutions: MP4 Support in DirectShow

Microsoft #DirectShow API was introduced long before the widespread adoption of MPEG-4. As MPEG-4 codecs and container formats became standard, DirectShow was, by Microsoft’s own admission, nearing the...

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LDS Temples and Technology: The DirectShow Journey

A while back, we were working on a media subsystem for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They needed software-controlled multimedia playback with specific requirements for their temples...

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Legacy Code and Overengineering: The MJPEG Decoder Saga

So, hashtag#DirectShow virtual cameras — those elusive creatures that always turn heads. We’ve chatted about them before on LinkedIn (check out our post here https://lnkd.in/dYte5SQ5). But let’s rewind...

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Enhancing Video Capture: Bridging the Gap Between Hardware and Software

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A codec for The Imaging Source cameras and [discontinued] IC Capture 2.5...

Truly advanced industrial cameras by The Imaging Source are provided with image acquisition software, End User Software is a free IC Capture application, which ended up with a few problems to resolve....

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