Media Foundation Team Blog

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...

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 , GraphViz...

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. TextAnalysisTool...

We are continuing our series on Media Foundation and its tracing by introducing a new tool available in the latest Windows SDK : MFTrace. This tool is similar to Event Viewer: Both tools collect traces which give some insight into what Media Foundation...

It is an unfortunate fact of life that sometimes things do not work as expected. Luckily, when bad things happen, the Event Viewer is there to help narrow down the issue and figure out the root cause of the problem. Without these traces, finding when...

Summary MFDub is a simple linear video editor built on Media Foundation, modeled after the free video editor VirtualDub. MFDub can open any file format that can be resolved by the MF source resolver , display frames of video from the file, apply a series...

MFManagedEncode.exe This is a managed tool written in C# and XAML that converts files from one media format to another. The source code is provided to use as a reference on how to interop with source reader , sink writer and the transcode API from...

This is a command line tool showcasing the Windows 7 Media Foundation APIs to read media source attributes and metadata. It also shows how to leverage the Windows Media Format SDK to read DRM properties. The source code can be useful for learning about...

MFCopy.exe - This is a command line tool showcasing the Windows 7 Media Foundation source reader and sink writer APIs. This tool copies multimedia files from one multimedia container to another. Copying can involve simply remultiplexing the streams, transcoding...

MFSimpleEncode.exe - This is a command line tool that transcodes files from one media format to another. The source code is provided to use as a reference if you write your own transcode application. This tool uses the Media Foundation transcode API ...

This blog is written by the Media Foundation team at Microsoft. It will provide in-depth information about Media Foundation programming, to help you get started with Media Foundation in your own applications. This blog also gives us a way to get feedback...