Multimedia Streaming Objects
[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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
This API is deprecated. New applications should not use it.
The following table describes the multimedia streaming objects.
| CLSID | Description | Interfaces supported |
|---|---|---|
| CLSID_AMMediaTypeStream | Can create media samples for any DirectShow-supported data type | |
| CLSID_AMAudioData | Implementation of IAudioData audio container object. | |
| CLSID_AMDirectDrawStream | DirectDraw media stream that can be added to a DirectShow multimedia stream. | |
| CLSID_AMMultiMediaStream | DirectShow implementation of multimedia stream. | |
| CLSID_MediaStreamFilter | Provides multimedia streaming functionality for the CLSID_AMMultiMediaStream object through the IAMMultiMediaStream interface. | |
| N/A | Samples created by the CLSID_AMMediaTypeStream object. | |
| N/A | Samples created by the DirectDraw stream. |