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Media Foundation support #191

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Have LAVSplitter register as both a DirectShow filter and Media Foundation 
Transform. The future is in Media Foundation and eventually Microsoft will stop 
shipping Windows with DirectShow support. It is possible to have a DLL 
registered as both a DirectShow filter and a Media Foundation Transform as the 
Microsoft DTV-DVD filter works this way and I believe there is documentation on 
MSDN explaining how to accomplish this.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ogre@chaocracy.net on 13 Feb 2012 at 7:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Sure its possible, but the two technologys are drastically different, and it 
would be alot of work to support both.

If Media Foundation ever gets more popularity, and is used by more then Windows 
Media Player, i may consider this. Until then, its not even on the TODO list.

Original comment by h.lepp...@gmail.com on 13 Feb 2012 at 8:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Fair enough but Media Player isn't really the only software that uses Media 
Foundation. The Zune software uses it for playback, streaming to the 360 and 
transcoding files for Zune and Windows Phone 7 devices. Windows 7 and Windows 
Home Server 2011 use it for DLNA stuff. Windows Explorer uses it for thumbnail 
and metadata extraction.

Keep in mind DirectShow is technically depricated and Microsoft is no longer 
developing it, adding new features or fixing any bugs. Windows 8 on x86/x64 
might not even have DirectShow support and Windows 8 on ARM certainly won't.

Original comment by ogre@chaocracy.net on 13 Feb 2012 at 10:03