Multimedia Streaming
[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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.
Multimedia Streaming is a set of APIs that enable an application to get audio and video data from a DirectShow filter graph without writing a custom DirectShow filter.
This section contains the following topics.
- About the Multimedia Streaming Architecture
- Multimedia Streaming Interfaces
- Multimedia Streaming Enumeration Types
- Multimedia Streaming Data Types
- Multimedia Streaming Error and Success Codes
- Multimedia Streaming Objects
- Multimedia Streaming Sample Code