DirectDraw Streaming Interfaces
[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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
These APIs are deprecated. Applications should use the Sample Grabber filter or implement a custom filter to get data from a DirectShow filter graph.
If you use DirectDraw-supported video formats in your streams, the following interfaces give you more powerful control over the data than the more generic base interfaces.
| Interface | Description |
|---|---|
| IDirectDrawMediaStream | Sets and retrieves the stream format and the DirectDraw object associated with the media stream; this interface derives from IMediaStream. You can also use this interface to create video samples. |
| IDirectDrawStreamSample | Enables you to attach video samples to DirectDraw surfaces; this interface derives from the IStreamSample interface. Each attached surface includes a clipping rectangle to make rendering easier. |
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