Controlling a DV Camcorder
[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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.]
This article describes how to control a digital video (DV) camcorder using DirectShow. It contains the following sections:
- External Device Interfaces for DV Camcorders
- Device Mode
- Device Transport State
- Stream Format
- Signal Format
- Controlling an External Device
- Getting Timecode from the Device
- Tape Location Search
- Issuing Raw AV/C Commands
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