What is the status of Microsoft Media Foundation?

Question

Microsoft Media Foundation (MF) was introduced as the successor of DirectShow in Windows Vista. I have mostly ignored it, but it has some features (such as decoding of WMV A

Answer 1

For me, Media Foundation is really a very nice API to do multimedia programming.

What I can blame, is that Media Foundation's releases don't apply to Windows 7, currently the most popular OS in the world.

Media Foundation has a lot of competitors (DirectShow, Ffmpeg, Gstreamer, etc...). So, more choice, less developers, less tutorials and so on...

I try to promote this API as i can, so here is my work on Media Foundation : MFNode

I cover a lot of scenarios, and you have to check source code to learn.

You will find :

• audio/video player (win32)
• custom media session
• sequencer source
• audio/video capture
• screen capture
• kinect V1 capture
• wave audio mixer
• http streaming (winsock)
• jpeg encoding (Gdiplus)
• dxva2 technology
• cuda decoding
• directX9 renderer and shader
• COM technology
• different kind of mediafoundation Source, Sink and Transform (mpeg2, flv, a52, vp6...)
• mp3 to wave transcoder

EDIT

More MediaFoundation code here : github mofo7777