RE: Video Driver Stack question from the Noob

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Dan,

When you say "If you must write a capture driver" -- can I assume that would
only be necessary if the device wasn't USB Video Class compliant?

-- mic
key@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


"Dan Maddy [MSFT]" wrote:

Hi Mickey,

More specifically, which ones will we have to write?

You do not have to write a driver if your device is USB Video Class
compliant and uses only the features supported in Windows.

AVStream Overview
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms802464.aspx

If you must write a capture driver for Vista we recommend that you write an
AVStream minidriver.

Since we're just getting the camera modules from ST and doing the rest
ourselves, will we be required to write the minis?

See above.

Best regards,

Dan Maddy
dmaddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Microsoft WDK Support

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