Sorting DirectShow Filters into Categories
The MontiVision Workbench application
sorts the available Direct Show® filter into various categories.
This enables the user to find a filter by searching according to
it's type. DirectShow® provides categories but these categories are
seldom practical. The Workbench application implements its own
algorithm to further categorise filters.
Filter Type
First the application assigns each of
the five types to a filter. The type describes the main media type
of the data handled by the filter.
| Video |
Includes all filters for video data. |
| Audio |
Includes all filters for audio data. |
| I/O |
Includes all filters that handles I/O data
only. I/O filters, data and pins are an extension to the
Direct Show® mediatypes. These filters allows processing I/O
data within a Direct Show® graph. |
| Stream |
Includes all filters with Stream functionality. |
| General |
Includes all filters that could not assign to another
type. |
Filter Category
Af |