[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: directshow grab device?

[Alex Beregszaszi]

Hi,

> I did VFW capture, and sent an unfinished patch to the mailinglist 
> earlier on this year (probably january or february).
> I gave up on it, but it's being used somewhere in bbc.co.uk. I don't 
> have the final version anymore, it's somewhere on my older shut down 
> computer. I'd have to bring it back up...

I have your code and slightly modified it. Works nicely. Plan to submit
it :)

> If you can really convert directshow style to ffmpeg, that would be 
> nice. It will be hard though, since directshow style is quite ugly for 
> ffmpeg's standards. Also, remember that the code must compile on MinGW, 
> not MSVC++. When I tried that with MinGW, I had to change a bunch of 
> stuff in dshow.h.

Could you give it a try? I offer help in it.

--
Alex Beregszaszi