Developing Microsoft Media Foundation Applications (Paperback)

Create professional-quality media applications and components with Microsoft Media Foundation-and deliver the next generation of high-definition multimedia. With this hands-on book, you'll learn how to build applications to capture video and audio files of different types, process media information, and stream it over the Internet. If you program with C++ and the Component Object Model (COM), this book is ideal-especially for developers looking to transfer their skills from Microsoft DirectShow. Discover how to: * Construct media pipelines with individual Media Foundation components * Build a simple video player to see how a basic media session works * Create applications that transcode media content from one format to another * Process data streams by writing Media Foundation Transform objects * Examine the internal architecture of Media Foundation Sources and Sinks * Design a custom media session object to learn advanced Media Foundation concepts * Create image overlays on top of video and send the result over the network