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An advanced user's tool: GRAPH EDIT
Today's Windows' multimedia architecture is based on DirectShow, which works basically as a collections of filters with input(s) and/or output(s) for data. Every multimedia component is represented by a DirectShow filter. This includes audio/video compressors/de-compressors, but also the input/output of your soundcard, along with many others. By connecting filters together, you create data paths for multimedia data, eventually resulting in an action (for example a video compression conversion).
Microsoft's DirectShow SDK (Software Development Kit) comes with a great application called Graph Edit, which allows you to graphically build filter graphs, thus manipulate directly every multimedia component of your system!
- Using GraphEdit
- Filter manipulation
- Full graph-creation example
- Possibilities of GraphEdit
- Description of some DirectShow filters
- The Dolby Digital downmixing
1. Using GraphEdit
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