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> From: Ramiro Ribeiro Polla <ramiro at lisha.ufsc.br>
> Date: 2007/04/23 Mon PM 03:41:12 EDT> To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel at mplayerhq.hu>
> Subject: Re: [Ffmpeg-devel] directshow grab device?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On 4/20/07, Ramiro Ribeiro Polla <ramiro at lisha.ufsc.br> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Aaron Griffin wrote:
> >> > Hey all,
> >> > I've looked through the archives, though not exhaustively, but I can't
> >> > seem to find a windows based grab device for libavformat besides
> >> > drffmpeg.
> >> >
> >> > I'm curious if anyone has actually done work on this, and if the
> >> > ffmpeg people would be interested in this.  The reason being that I am
> >> > currently writing a (commercial) app which does just this, and I was
> >> > debating doing the reverse of ffdshow - that is, convert directshow> >> > style to ffmpeg, and not ffmpeg style to directshow.
> >> >
> >> > Has anyone done any work in this regard and/or would be interested in
> >> > it if I were to throw something together?
> >> >
> >> 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...
> >
> > Yeah, but the biggest hurdle here is that VFW dies with Vista.  In
> > most of my tests, VFW seems to actually be more performant for
> > grabbing raw frames.  *sigh*
> >
> 
> That's too bad... VFW is simpler, and I think it should be implemented, 
> even if it dies with Vista. DirectShow support could also be added 
> independently of VFW though.
> 
> >> 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.
> >
> > Actually, the plan was to use wine's DirectShow headers, as they
> > nicely wrap COM into C style, so it doesn't force C++ usage, which
> > would be bad news in ffmpeg.
> >
> If you can stick with C, that would be very good. The only C++ file in 
> FFmpeg is for BeOS, and I'm not sure we want any more.
> Even if it means that --enable-muxer=dshow depends on some external 
> library (like wine's DirectShow headers). We'll just have to check on 
> configure...
> 
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