DirectShow Architecture for Filter Developers

This section describes the DirectShow architecture at a level of detail appropriate to filter development. Before reading the following topics, you should read the topics in Getting Started with DirectShow and DirectShow Architecture. If you are writing a DirectShow application but not developing any filters, you can probably safely skip these topics, or else skim through them.

• How Filters Connect
• Data Flow in the Filter Graph
• Time and Clocks in DirectShow
• Quality-Control Management

Last updated on Wednesday, April 13, 2005

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