By Amit Ranjan
July 21, 2006
A number of Windows Mobile 5.0 APIs (for example, SHCameraCapture) make it trivial for a mobile application developer to access a camera, but their ease of use comes at a price—flexibility. Most of the time, using the API directly would offer a solution, but sometimes you need more control and flexibility. That's where Microsoft's DirectShow framework comes in. This article shows how to use DirectShow to access a camera. It demonstrates how to build a filter graph manually and how to handle graph events in the application message handler. Having some prior knowledge of DirectShow and COM will be helpful, but it's not necessary.A number of
