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4/8/2010

A Windows Embedded CE-based device can support more than one capture (camera) device. You can enumerate all the capture devices through calls to FindFirstDeviceand FindNextDevice. In your call to FindFirstDevice, set the searchTypeset to DeviceSearchByGuid and pvSearchParamset to DEVCLASS_CAMERA_GUID, which is the GUID value {0xCB998A05, 0x122C, 0x4166, 0x84, 0x6A, 0x93, 0x3E, 0x4D, 0x7E, 0x3C, 0x86}. It is possible to use other search types, but using the device class GUID is the most reliable way to find a capture device. Once you have obtained a search handle from FindFirstDevice, you can make successive calls to FindNextDeviceto locate all of the available capture devices. The following code shows how to

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GetFirstCameraDriver( WCHAR *pwzName ) {
  HRESULT hr = S_OK;
  HANDLE handle = NULL;
  DEVMGR_DEVICE_INFORMATION di;
  GUID guidCamera = { 0xCB998A05, 0x122C, 0x4166, 0x84, 0x6A,
					0x93, 0x3E, 0x4D, 0x7E, 0x3C, 0x86 };

  if( pwzName == NULL ) {
	return E_POINTER;
  }

  di.dwSize = sizeof(di);

  handle = FindFirstDevice( DeviceSearchByGuid, &guidCamera,
&di );
  if(( handle == NULL ) || ( di.hDevice == NULL )) {
	ERR( HRESULT_FROM_WIN32( GetLastError() ));
  }

  StringCchCopy( pwzName, MAX_PATH, di.szLegacyName );
 
Cleanup:
  FindClose( handle );
  return hr;
}

After choosing one of the available capture devices, you must attach it to a filter graph to read data from it. You do this by finding the capture device's name and then attaching that name to the filter graph through a property bag when you initialize the filter. A capture device's name is stored in the szLegacyNamemember of the DEVMGR_DEVICE_INFORMATIONstructure returned by FindFirstDeviceor FindNextDevice. When the filter captures data it uses the capture device name stored in the property bag to identify the source of the data.

The following code shows how to pass the name of the capture device, varCamName, to a filter through an object, PropBag, that implements an IPropertyBaginterface.

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// Initialize the video capture filter
pVideoCap.CoCreateInstance( CLSID_VideoCapture ); 
pVideoCap.QueryInterface( &pPropertyBag );
varCamName = L"CAM1:";
if(( varCamName.vt == VT_BSTR ) == NULL ) {
  return E_OUTOFMEMORY;
}
PropBag.Write( L"VCapName", &varCamName );   
pPropertyBag->Load( &PropBag, NULL );
pPropertyBag.Release();
pGraph->AddFilter( pVideoCap, L"Video capture source" );

The string L"VCapName"identifies the filter property for the name of the video capture device.

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Concepts

Video Capture