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Title: DirectShow video capture in VB (AMCap ported for VB)
Description:
While searching for a DirectShow based control for video preview and capturing in VB and making changes programmatically to capture card settings, I just found nothing. There are a lot of forums where people have asked about such kind of facility (e.g. How to change the resolutin of the preview? How to capture the video and use some codecs with it? etc...) but nothing exists till now.

Microsoft has built a VC++ application (AMCap) which is based on DirectShow API from the DirectX SDK. This application is a WIN32 application and gives the full control over the video capture card and we can make changes to the settings and features programmatically. The problem lies with the fact that this application is a WIN32 based application and the code does not rely on MFC for compilation, and hence there is an effort required to convert this application to an ActiveX component. I am interested in ActiveX component because it will be equally usable in VB and VC++ programs.

The language of development will be VC++
The development platform is MS Visual Studio 6.0 with the DirectX SDK 2002 (can be downloaded from microsoft website).
The target Operating system is Windows XP.

The project is divided in to some small tasks

1- Develop a prototype ActiveX converted from a very simple and basic WIN32 application
2- Develop System Devices Enumeration capabilities
3- Develop Filter Graph Manager (some simple commands to create a Graph Manager would be a great help)
4- Show the properties of the Video capture card in the form of Property pages or custome dialog boxes.


If anyone interested, please join us to develop this "Open source" and for General Public Usage.