Programming Microsoft DirectShow for Digital Video and Television: Amazon.ca: Mark Pesce D.: Books

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From desktop to television screen, deliver broadcast-ready digital video with DirectShow—the Microsoft DirectX streaming API integrated in the Windows operating system. Digital video expert and VRML creator Mark Pesce walks you through core DirectShow capabilities for capturing, editing, and rendering media—demonstrating basic to advanced techniques for producing studio-quality results. Whether you’re looking to add simple playback to an application or create your own movies and features, you’ll get the tools, guidance, and ready-to-use media clips you need to get started now.

Learn how to:

Use the GraphEdit design tool to rapidly prototype applications
Write your own source, transform, and renderer filters
Capture audio and video from Webcams, digital video cameras, and TV tuners
Compress digital video streams onto disk
Place clips and tracks on a timeline with DirectShow Editing Services
Merge multiple video streams with the Video Mixing Renderer (VMR)
Synchronize audio and video
Create simple programs to play MP3, WAV, MIDI, AVI, and Microsoft Windows Media files
Use DirectX Media Objects (DMOs) for faster, lightweight development of effects, encoders, and decoders
Extend DirectShow with AVIs and Windows Media Format

CD inside Includes reusable media and code samples

CD features:

Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) and documentation
Music, a movie short, and other video and audio samples
All the book’s programs and code

A Note Regarding the CD or DVD

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From the viewpoint of the application programmer, Microsoft DirectShow is composed of two types of classes of objects: filters, the atomic entities of Direct-Show; and filter graphs, collections of filters connected together to provide specific functionality. Read the first page

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2.0 out of 5 stars Needed to like it, but...., Jan 28 2004

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Elwood Dunning (Cincinnati, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Programming Microsoft DirectShow for Digital Video and Television (Paperback)

I wanted to like this book - mostly because I really needed a book covering some of the problems I was having with DirectShow. The company I work for has DirectShow as the core component of their customer-facing software. I wasn't brought in to work on that part of it, but it quickly fell under my umbrella. I had no DirectShow experience, so I turned to the SDK docs and looked for a few books.

Well I have to say that if it wasn't for the SDK docs I would have been sunk. Both this book and Programming Direct Show have been real losers. This is better than the other book, but that isn't saying much.

Like previous posters I was disappointed by the audio. I have to support file playback, streaming, and control of a tv card through my interface. Its not rocket science, but the dearth of material on controlling tv cards in this book made it all but useless to me. The same material exists in the same form on MS DirectShow docs - the author added next to nothing.

I did give it 2 stars because sometimes it is nice to have the SDK documentation - with a little extra - to read when you are away from the computer. The author however should be ashamed for putting out such a cut-n-paste effort, pathetic.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly "just the SDK" but still not great, April 21 2004

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Thomas B. Gross (Winchester, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book several months ago but I've held off writing a review as I have been trying to learn DirectShow.

It is not exactly just the SDK documentation in a paper binding but it isn't a whole lot more either. Most people trying to how to use DirectShow will probably buy this book anyway and they probably should: it is at least better than nothing. But don't get your hopes up.

My biggest gripe is that at least one of the examples in this book which does not come directly from the SDK sample programs doesn't seem to actually work. It compiles, and it runs, but it just doesn't display anything.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Too little on VMR, April 21 2004

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Stein-Roar Sk�nhaug Bj�rnstad (Hokksund, Norway) - See all my reviews
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I wanted to read more about the new VMR9, but the book disappointed me with the thin coverage of VMR9 and videoplayback in general. I guess the book is all right on the topics filters, video editing and video caption.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Just the SDK Docs in Paperback
This is a pathetic book. I have very little respect for any author that would produce this kind of trash. Read more

Published on Jan 13 2004 by Barry D. Adkins

5.0 out of 5 stars Excatly What I Was Looking For.
This is a great book. It covers all the specifics of DirectShow and helps you get going on some pretty complicated projects. Read more

Published on Nov 18 2003 by David Shamma