Cannot create direct show

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  • Cannot create direct show

    • I suggest you uninstall and reinstall the graphic card drivers.!

    Troubleshooting Tips

    [The feature associated with this page, DirectShow, is a legacy feature.

    Arstechnica.com › › Microsoft OS & Software Colloquium.

  • Arstechnica.com › › Microsoft OS & Software Colloquium.
  • Solved!
  • I suggest you uninstall and reinstall the graphic card drivers.
  • This can be a side STA thread you create graph on, you keep it alive until you destroy the graph, you run a message loop on it in the meantime.
  • Github.com › RenderHeads › UnityPlugin-AVProVideo › issues.

    • It has been superseded by MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine, and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation. Those features have been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use MediaPlayer, IMFMediaEngine and Audio/Video Capture in Media Foundation instead of DirectShow, when possible.

    Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]

    This following tips will help you to avoid deadlocks or crashes in your DirectShow application.

    Global Objects

    A global C++ object should not create DirectShow objects in its constructor method or release them in its destructor method.

    Describe the issue I'm trying to load a video file using DirectShow.

    Doing so can cause the application to block indefinitely, for the following reason:

    Threads cannot exit while inside a DLL's entry-point function. Kernel 32 holds a global process lock during the entry-point function, and the lock prevents the thread from exiting.

    Because some DirectShow objects own threads, they ca