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Breaking Windows Update of Windows Media Video 9 Decoder 20 Jul 2013 | 07:25 pm
One of the recent updates delivered via automatic Windows Update is breaking video decoding for Windows Media Video streams (four character code WMV3). It’s hard to trace things back, however the most...
DirectShow Spy: Human Friendly Filter Graph Information and Filter Graph List 9 Jul 2013 | 01:30 am
A typical task for DirectShow Spy is to get installed onto, make the target application filter graphs available for inspection and… then get inspected with some additional tool. The last step assumes ...
DeckLinkCapabilities: A Printout of Capabilities of Blackmagic Design/DeckLink Hardware 13 May 2013 | 01:35 am
The tool provides a user- (well, actually a developer-) friendly printout of capabilities accessible via Blackmagic Design DeckLink SDK for DeckLink series of hardware. This covers features of DeckLin...
RotView: What is on ROT? 5 Jan 2013 | 01:27 am
Once upon a time Windows SDK (or it was Visual Studio) had a tool named IROTVIEW which enumerated Running Object Table (ROT). Running Object Table Viewer IROTVIEW displays information about ActiveX an...
CaptureClock: Utility to Check Video/Audio Capture Rates 5 Jan 2013 | 12:36 am
Someone discovered the utility while browsing my public repository (the app prompts to post data back to the website, and the anonymous user accepted the offer and posted the report from this unpublis...
DirectShow Spy: ROT fix and evrprop.dll 4 Jan 2013 | 11:14 pm
A small issue appears to be affecting DirectShow applications with DirectShow Spy installed. As underlying COM base is non-standard, the spy implements a few hacks to run smoothly and to keep referenc...
Bringing virtual DirectShow devices back to life with Skype 6 28 Nov 2012 | 03:16 am
As mentioned before, new Skype 6 broke compatibility with all virtual DirectShow devices out there. Just oops, nothing works any longer if only it is not a full driver exposing virtual device through ...
DirectShow Spy: Easier Registration 24 Nov 2012 | 01:31 pm
Because DirectShow Spy is often a troubleshooting tool, one of its use scenarios is its being a drop-in module to quickly install on a system of interest in order to connect to graphs for troubleshoot...
dlinkddns.com@ and unique email addresses 23 Nov 2012 | 10:29 pm
This is a spam email. There is not so much special about, just the recipient address. “Single use” email addresses have an advantage of trackability of spam sources, because once you start receiving m...
Skype 6.0.0.126: improved support for video devices for richer user experience 17 Nov 2012 | 03:53 pm
A new release of Skype is out there, version 6.0.0.126: Metro look on the main (roster) window – good job! Broken compatibility with software (virtual) video capture devices – good job! Broken compati...
