Play mp4 file using direct show

[kalpanaanb]

can anyone tell how to play a mp4 (h.264 + AAC) file using direct show ?

[poisondeathray]

Option 1: If you use MPC, and disable the internal filters, it will use directshow by default

Option 2: You can construct a .grf and use graphedit or graphstudio

Optoin 3: You can specify DirectShowSource() in an avisynth .avs file, and play that in a media player that supports .avs playback (e.g MPC)

[kalpanaanb]

Thanks for ur reply
I was able to play mp4 file using graphedit.
But can u tell me the directshow source api to be used to play it programmatically.
To play mp4 I used Haali madia splitter and ffdhow filter. How to call these filter using directshow api.
Can u please help me in this .

[JohnnyMalaria]

For each one, you need to know the CLSID for the filter and then call CoCreateInstance(...) to create the filter. Add it to the filter graph and connect the input and output pins. For the CLSIDs, look them up in GraphEdit (in the list of DirectShow filters).