Developing Microsoft Media Foundation Applications

Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Microsoft Press (October 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0735656592
ISBN-13: 978-0735656598

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Create professional-quality media applications and components with Microsoft Media Foundation—and deliver the next generation of high-definition multimedia. With this hands-on book, you’ll learn how to build applications to capture video and audio files of different types, process media information, and stream it over the Internet. If you program with C++ and the Component Object Model (COM), this book is ideal—especially for developers looking to transfer their skills from Microsoft DirectShow®.

Discover how to:

Construct media pipelines with individual Media Foundation components
Build a simple video player to see how a basic media session works
Create applications that transcode media content from one format to another
Process data streams by writing Media Foundation Transform objects
Examine the internal architecture of Media Foundation Sources and Sinks
Design a custom media session object to learn advanced Media Foundation concepts
Create image overlays on top of video and send the result over the network

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Core Media Foundation Concepts
Chapter 2 TopoEdit
Chapter 3 Media Playback
Chapter 4 Transcoding
Chapter 5 Media Foundation Transforms
Chapter 6 Media Foundation Sources
Chapter 7 Media Foundation Sinks
Chapter 8 Custom Media Sessions
Chapter 9 Advanced Media Foundation Topics

Appendix Debugging Media Foundation Code
Appendix COM Concepts
Appendix Active Template Library Objects