Directshow recording/preview problem

Question

I have a project where I need to record a video using DirectShow from a webcam, but I need to be able to stop recording while the preview continues to run.

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Answer 1

If you can accept a momentary pause in preview when you start/stop recording and don't want to use something like a 2 graph GMFBridge approach, you can disconnect either the capture pin on the video capture source filter (assuming you are using separate preview and a capture pins from your source filter) or disconnect the File Writer chain portion of your capture sub-graph.

The issue here is the filtergraph must be paused before changes can be made to its topology, so you'd need to:

Pause Graph Disconnect or Reconnect File Writer chain Resume Graph

In my experience the temporary pause is not very noticeable.