DirectShowSource & graphedit

[thoralf]

Hi there,

I'm trying to use a dv cam as a frameserver for Avisynth. This probably seems to be quite useless at a first glance, but I'm trying to get some visuals done this way ...
Unfortunately, Avisynth is unable to dock to a free pin in my filter Graph, it just displays an error message "interface not supported".
The avs contains only one line for the time being:
DirectShowSource("CamCapture.GRF")
I tried various filter graphs with and without avi muxers with no success. They work just fine in GraphEdit if I terminate them with either the video renderer or the file writer.

Any ideas on how to solve this? Maybe the dv codec (tried Sony as well the M$ one) spits out a strange colour format?

Thank you very much,
Thoralf.

[Wilbert]

Adding Overlay Mixer II gives you free pin (iirc).

[thoralf]

Originally posted by Wilbert
Adding Overlay Mixer II gives you free pin (iirc).

Thank you, Wilbert.

Unfortunately, avs seems to be unable to connect to this pin as well (interface not supported). Hmm.
My basic filter graph looks like this:
[M$ dv cam / video recorder (dv out)] -> [dv video decoder] -> [overlay mixer 2] -> (free pin)

I just tried file source (avi-dv-stream) instead of m$ dv cam, and voilá - that worked. So bashing a certain company from Redmond seems appropiate to me in this case ...