[Theora-dev] Problems with Theora DirectShow filters

[Robert Huitl]

Hi,

I'm trying to capture video and audio from a webcam in order to encode it with 
the Theora and Speex DirectShow-filters. For audio, this filter graph plays 
fine: http://www.huitl.de/mic-speexenc-speexdec-out.png.

The video part is problematic. Please have a look at 
http://www.huitl.de/cam-theoraenc-theoradec-out.png.

1. The webcam provides the color formats RGB24, I420 and IYUV. The Theora  
encode filter only accepts YV12, so I can't just connect the webcam capture 
pin with theora's yv12-in.
2. The "Color Space Converter" can't do the conversion to YV12.
3. I found that the ffdshow raw video filter should be able to do this 
conversion (although I'd like to have no dependencies other than Theora and 
Speex).
4. When I render the Theora decode filter's output pin, DirectShow attaches an 
AVI decompressor, a color space converter and finally the video renderer.
5. I cannot play the filter graph. When trying to do so, GraphBuild shows: 
"This graph can't play", return code 0x80070000.
6. I tried to replace the AVI decompressor and the color space converter with 
another ffdshow raw video filter. When I connect the ffdshow-filter's output 
with the video renderer, GraphBuild crashes: 
http://www.huitl.de/cam-theoraenc-theoradec-ff-out.png

I'd appreciate any help doing this:
1. Capture video from the webcam and encode with Theora.
2. Access the encoded video data in order to send it over a network.
3. Feed data received over a network to the Theora decoder, which in turn 
should pass it to a video renderer.

Used versions:
- oggcodecs_XP_0.63.7755
- ffdshow-20040828
- DirectX 9.0b + SDK 9.0b

Regards,
  Robert
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