IGetCapabilitiesKey interface (strmif.h)

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The IGetCapabilitiesKey interface enables an application to retrieve the capabilities of a software or hardware codec from the registry, without creating an instance of the encoder filter. The moniker for the codec filter exposes this interface. For more information, see Encoder API.

Inheritance

The IGetCapabilitiesKey interface inherits from the IUnknown interface. IGetCapabilitiesKey also has these types of members:

Methods

The IGetCapabilitiesKey interface has these methods.

 
IGetCapabilitiesKey::GetCapabilitiesKey

The GetCapabilitiesKey method gets a registry key that contains capability information for the codec.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows XP with SP2 [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows Server 2003 R2 [desktop apps only]
Target Platform Windows
Header strmif.h (include Dshow.h)

See also

Interfaces