Capturing Video to a File
[The feature associated with this page, DirectShow, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation. Those features have been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation instead of DirectShow, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]
This section describes how to capture video from a device to a file. It contains the following topics:
- Capturing Video to an AVI File
- Capturing Video to a Windows Media File
- Custom File Formats
- Video Port Pins in File Capture
- Capturing to Multiple Files
- Combining Video Capture and Preview
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