GraphStudio is a free software

Free software

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 project for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

 and is intended mainly for developers who work with the DirectShow

DirectShow

DirectShow , codename Quartz, is a multimedia framework and API produced by Microsoft for software developers to perform various operations with media files or streams. It is the replacement for Microsoft's earlier Video for Windows technology...

 technology. It mimics the look and feel of the GraphEdit

GraphEdit

GraphEdit is a utility which is part of the Microsoft DirectShow SDK. It is a visual tool for building and testing filter graphs for DirectShow. Filters are displayed as boxes, with a text caption showing the name of the filter. Pins appear as small squares along the edge of the filter...

 software that has always been a part of DirectXSDK and PlatformSDK but has not been developed for several years.

Features

GraphStudio follows the original look and feel of GraphEdit.

In addition to GraphEdit features, GraphStudio offers:

• list of recently used files for source/sink filters
• shortcuts to add commonly used filters
• events window
• generating text reports with multiple levels of details
• graph screenshot into clipboard
• detailed information on media types and associated format structures
• customizable event scheduler
• internal dump filter
• categorized favorite filters

External links

• GraphStudio Home Page - an OpenSource GraphEdit implementation (GPL License)