Media Foundation Programming Guide

This section contains overview topics for using Microsoft Media Foundation in your C++ application.

Getting Started

• Essential Concepts
• Media Foundation Architecture

Writing Media Applications

• Audio/Video Playback
• Audio/Video Capture
• Encoding and File Authoring
• Media Metadata
• Networking in Media Foundation

Media Format Support

• Supported Media Formats in Media Foundation
• Media Foundation Codec Objects
• ASF Support in Media Foundation
• MPEG-4 Support in Media Foundation
• Windows Media Codecs

Low-Level Video APIs

• Direct3D 9 Video APIs
• Direct3D 11 Video APIs
• DirectX Video Acceleration 2.0
• Output Protection Manager

Writing Media Foundation Plug-ins

• Media Foundation Transforms
• Media Sinks
• Media Sources

Related topics

Media Foundation Architecture

Microsoft Media Foundation