Interfaces

This topic contains reference information for the Microsoft® DirectShow® core interfaces. To provide broad support for various types of hardware, file formats, and stream operations, DirectShow implements a large number of interfaces. Some are used by applications; others are used internally by filters and other DirectShow components.

Any particular application will use only a small subset of these interfaces. Which interfaces you need depends on the nature of the application. The following sections summarize the application-level interfaces by functional area:

• Interfaces for Building Filter Graphs
• Interfaces for Controlling a Filter Graph
• Audio Capture and Rendering Interfaces
• DVD Interfaces
• Video Capture Interfaces
• File Encoding and Decoding Interfaces
• Interfaces for Video Rendering and Overlay
• Analog TV Tuning Interfaces
• External Device Control Interfaces

See Also

• DirectShow Objects
• DirectShow Filters