IWMOutputMediaProps::GetConnectionName method (wmsdkidl.h)

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The GetConnectionName method retrieves the name of the connection to be used for output.

Syntax

HRESULT GetConnectionName(
  [out]     WCHAR *pwszName,
  [in, out] WORD  *pcchName
);

Parameters

[out] pwszName

Pointer to a wide-character null-terminated string containing the name. Pass NULL to retrieve the length of the name.

[in, out] pcchName

On input, a pointer to a variable containing the length of the pwszName array in wide characters. On output, if the method succeeds, it specifies a pointer to the length of the connection name, including the terminating null character.

Return value

The method returns an HRESULT. Possible values include, but are not limited to, those in the following table.

Remarks

The reader creates a default connection name for each output that is simply a string representation of the output number, for example "1", "2", "3" and so on.

You should make two calls to GetConnectionName. On the first call, pass NULL as pwszName. On return, the value pointed to by pcchName is set to the number of wide characters, including the terminating null character, required to hold the connection name. Then you can allocate the required amount of memory for the string and pass a pointer to it as pwszName on the second call.

This connection name is used to match stream numbers to output numbers. All streams in the file are associated with an IWMStreamConfig object whose connection name matches this one (which can be obtained by a call to IWMStreamConfig::GetConnectionName).

Requirements

See also

IWMOutputMediaProps Interface

IWMStreamConfig Interface

IWMStreamConfig::GetConnectionName

Inputs, Streams and Outputs