Learn Windows: Audio and Video Development

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Learn Windows: Audio and Video Development

Get Started with Windows Audio and Video Development

Get Started with Media Foundation Media foundation enables you to produce high quality multimedia experiences. This link will lead you to MSDN documentation on what Media Foundation is and has a high level overview of the developer content.Click the following link to learn more about supported media formats in Media Foundation. Get Started with Core Audio Core Audio is the preferred way to add support for low-latency, well-featured, and glitch-resistant audio in the latest Windows operating systems. This link will lead you to an overview of Core Audio highlighting its features. Getting Started with DirectShow DirectShow is an older end-to-end media pipeline, which supports playback, audio/video capture, encoding, DVD navigation and playback, analog television, and MPEG-2. This link will lead you to the DirectShow introduction that will lead you through the process of developing DirectShow applications.Click the following link to learn more about supported media formats in DirectShow.

Windows SDK The Microsoft Windows SDK is a set of tools, code samples, documentation, compilers, headers, and libraries that developers can use to create applications that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems using native (Win32) or managed (.NET Framework) programming models. Download the Windows SDK to add support for Windows media formats and develop Windows applications.

Integrate Windows Audio and Video into your Application

Media Foundation Programming Guide Read the developer documentation covering the best practices and key developer scenarios for developing applications that feature the latest Windows multimedia APIs. Core Audio Programming Guide Read the developer documentation covering developer scenarios for creating applications that feature the latest Windows audio APIs. DirectShow Programming Guide Read the developer documentation covering DirectShow.

Media Foundation SDK Samples Gives descriptions of the Media Foundation samples that ship with the Windows SDK. SDK Samples that use the Core Audio APIs Lists the samples that ship with the Windows SDK and demonstrate how to use Core Audio. DirectShow Samples Lists the various samples that ship with the Windows SDK and demonstrate how to use DirectShow.

Learn More about Windows Audio and Video Development

Media Foundation Development Forum
Discuss development of multimedia applications.

Windows Pro-Audio Application Development Forum
Discuss topics and ask questions related to DAWs, Plug-Ins, Soft-Synths, and more.

DirectShow Development Forum
Discuss the use of the DirectShow API.

Other Resources

	The Green Button This site is the official Windows Media Center community portal. It contains developer forums for Windows Media Center and Microsoft TV Technologies.
	Windows Media Licensing Administration (WMLA) License Request Form Use this form to request licenses for Windows Media technologies, including PlayReady and Windows Media Rights Manager SDK.

Windows Media Foundation Team Blog

This blog provides in-depth information about Media Foundation programming.

Windows Media

Using MFTrace to Trace Your Own Code
Now that you know how to trace Media Foundation and analyze those traces to figure out what Media Foundation is doing, the next step is to figure out what your own code is doing. That means adding traces for MFTrace to your code. The simplest way to... More...

Automating Trace Analysis
In our last post, we discussed how to examine Media Foundation traces manually, using TextAnalysisTool.NET. This time, we present a few scripts to automate the process and identify problems more quickly. Getting Started First, install Perl, Graph... More...

Analyzing Media Foundation traces
As we mentioned in our previous blog post, log files generated by MFTrace quickly become huge, and it can be difficult to sort out interesting traces from background noise. This blog post will share a few tips to help analyze those log files. TextAn... More...