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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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