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AmCap Sample |
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AmCap Sample |
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[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 It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation.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.]
Video capture application.
This sample application demonstrates the following tasks related to audio and video capture:
- Capture to a file
- Live preview
- Allocation of the capture file
- Display of device property pages
- Device enumeration
- Stream control
AMCap supports MPEG-2 program stream input, for example from analog TV Tuners that stream MPEG-2 content. A DirectShow-compatible MPEG-2 decoder is required to decode the streams.
To download the DirectShow SDK samples, install the latest version of the Windows SDK.
This sample is installed under the following path: [SDK Root]\Samples\Multimedia\DirectShow\Capture\AmCap.