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IDVSplitter interface (strmif.h)

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Downgrades the frame rate on a digital video (DV) stream. The DV Splitter filter exposes this interface.

Applications can use this interface to reduce the frame rate on a DV stream, before the stream reaches the DV Video Decoder filter. This can be helpful for processor-intensive tasks, such as real-time transcoding.

Inheritance

The IDVSplitter interface inherits from the IUnknown interface. IDVSplitter also has these types of members:

Methods

The IDVSplitter interface has these methods.

 
IDVSplitter::DiscardAlternateVideoFrames

The DiscardAlternateVideoFrames method discards half of the frames in the video stream. For NTSC, the frame rate is reduced from 30 frames per second (fps) to 15 fps. For PAL, the frame rate is reduced from 25 fps to 12.5 fps.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client Windows XP [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server Windows Server 2003 [desktop apps only]
Target Platform Windows
Header strmif.h (include Dshow.h)