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 STYLEREF Ch \* MERGEFORMAT Digital Video Camcorder Support in Windows —  PAGE 14  REF docversion September 28, 2001  Platform Design Notes Designing Hardware and Drivers for the Microsoft? Windows? Family of Operating Systems Digital Video Camcorder Support in Windows Abstract This article describes how developers of PC video-editing applications can call certain Microsoft? DirectShow? application programming interfaces to control a digital video (DV)?camcorder device connected to a PC running the Microsoft? Windows? operating system. This paper also recommends a mechanism to preserve application performance while the camcorder performs time-consuming operations. The information in this paper applies to for Windows 98 SE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Note: Msdv.sys is a kernel streaming minidriver that utilizes the system-supplied streaming class driver, Stream.sys, to control a DV?camcorder device. For documentation about writing kernel streaming minidrivers, see Streaming Devices in the Windows DDK. September 28, 2001 Contents  TOC \o 1-2 \h \z  HYPERLINK \l _Toc526307445 Introduction  PAGEREF _Toc526307445 \h 3  HYPERLINK \l _Toc526307446 Connecting to the Interfaces  PAGEREF _Toc526307446 \h 3  HYPERLINK \l _Toc526307447 Getting Information from a DV?Camcorder Device  PAGEREF _Toc526307447 \h 5  HYPERLINK \l _Toc526307448 Getting Device Capabilities  PAGEREF _Toc526307448 \h 5  HYPERLINK \l _Toc526307449 Getting Information about Media  PAGEREF _Toc526307449 \h 5  HYPERLINK \l _Toc526307450 Getting Information about the Signal Mode and Transport State  PAGEREF _Toc526307450 \h 6  HYPERLINK \l _Toc526307451 Getting Timecode and Track Number Data  PAGEREF _Toc526307451 \h 6  HYPERLINK \l _Toc526307452 Controlling a DV?Camcorder Device  PAGEREF _Toc526307452 \h 7  HYPERLINK \l _Toc526307453 Performing Standard Operations  PAGEREF _Toc526307453 \h 7  HYPERLINK \l _T