Exposing Capture and Compression Formats

This article describes how to return capture and compression formats by using the IAMStreamConfig::GetStreamCaps method. This method can get more information about accepted media types than the traditional way of enumerating a pin's media types, so it should typically be used instead. For information about traditional media type enumeration, see Establishing Media Type Connections. GetStreamCaps can return information about the kinds of formats allowed for audio or video. Additionally, this article provides some sample code that demonstrates how to reconnect the input pin of a transform filter to ensure your filter can produce a particular output.

The GetStreamCaps method returns an array of pairs of media type and capabilities structures. The media type is an AM_MEDIA_TYPE structure and the capabilities are represented either by an AUDIO_STREAM_CONFIG_CAPS structure or a VIDEO_STREAM_CONFIG_CAPS structure. The first section in this article presents a video example and the second presents an audio example.

This article contains the following topics:

• Video Capabilities
• Audio Capabilities
• Reconnecting Your Input to Ensure Specific Output Types