Programming Microsoft® DirectShow® for Digital Video and Television

This book opens a new world to Windows programmers—digital video. By 2005, consumers will be using more than 68 million digital video cameras, and today even professional filmmakers such as Spike Lee are using digital video to make big-budget Hollywood films. Microsoft DirectShow is a media-streaming architecture for the Microsoft Windows® platform that enables high-quality capture and playback of streaming audio and video. This book opens the new world of digital video to programmers who work in Windows. Written by a cocreator of the popular VRML 3-D graphics language, this book is ideal for any developer who wants to make the most of the DirectShow API.