Programming Microsoft DirectShow for Digital Video and Television FROM THE PUBLISHER
By 2005, consumers will be using more than 68 million digital video cameras, and today even professional filmmakers such as Spike Lee are using digital video to make big-budget Hollywood films. Microsoft DirectShow is a media-streaming architecture for the Microsoft Windows platform that enables high-quality capture and playback of streaming audio and video. This book opens the new world of digital video to programmers who work in Windows. Written by a cocreator of the popular VRML 3-D graphics language, this book is ideal for any developer who wants to make the most of the DirectShow API.
SYNOPSIS
This book/CD-ROM package shows how to create broadcast-ready digital video with DirectShow, the Microsoft DirectX streaming API integrated in the Windows operating system. Pesce, a consultant, walks through the software's capabilities for capturing, editing, and rendering media and demonstrate basic to advanced techniques. The CD-ROM contains video and audio samples, plus programs and code. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR