By 2005, consumers will be using more than 68 million digital video cameras, and today even professional filmmakers such as Spike Lee are using digital video to make big-budget Hollywood films. Microsoft DirectShow is a media-streaming architecture for the Microsoft Windows platform that enables high-quality capture and playback of streaming audio and video. This book opens the new world of digital video to programmers who work in Windows. Written by a cocreator of the popular VRML 3-D graphics language, this book is ideal for any developer who wants to make the most of the DirectShow API.