## About the DirectShow ActiveMovie Control

You can use the DirectShow ActiveMovie Control to quickly add support for multimedia to your applications. DirectShow supports the many media types, including MPEG audio and video, AVI video, WAV audio, MIDI audio, and Apple® QuickTime® video. The DirectShow SDK provides samples and examples that illustrate how to write programs that use the control with either Microsoft® Visual Basic® or Microsoft Visual C++®.

The ActiveMovie Control represents an easy-to-use programming interface that lets you manage multimedia using the control's properties, methods, and events. The control handles all video and audio rendering for you, which simplifies your programming tasks and makes it easy to add support for multimedia to your application. In addition to the ActiveMovie Control, you can use the DirectShow Component Object Model (COM) interfaces. (See Summary of DirectShow COM Interfaces in the DirectShow SDK documentation.)

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