Architecture Documentation

Table of Contents

• The Toolset of ADTF
• Streaming within ADTF
• Session Managment
• Using of DDL within ADTF
• Error Handling in ADTF
• Extending the ADTF Configuration Editor
• Additional information

Introduction

You will find a topic grouped overview as followed. For an alphabetic overview please refer to our Architecture sitemap.

The Toolset of ADTF

• Toolset
• System Definition

Streaming within ADTF

All about the Filter Graph - this is the conclusion of the ADTF Streaming Architecture.

Understand what the components within a Filter and see how to transport data from one Filter to the other. what is a Data Pipe and what is a Trigger Pipe.

• Streaming Architecture
• Filter
• Sample
• Stream Type and Stream Meta Type
• Substreams
• Streaming Service
• Sample Stream
• Out Pins and Sample Writers/Pin Writers
• In Pins and Sample Readers/Pin Readers
• Overview of writing and reading samples
• Data Pipe
• Trigger Pipe
• Inner Trigger Pipe of a Filter
• Active Runner
• Streaming Graph as a Top-Level Graph

Session Managment

• System Service
• Session Initialization
• Session Manager
• Session
• ADTF Session XML Schema file

Using of DDL within ADTF

• DDL and ADTF 3
• ADTF Media Description SDK
• DDL Definition File Format
• Porting ADTF DDL to Open Source DDL Library

Error Handling in ADTF

• Error Handling

Extending the ADTF Configuration Editor

It is possible to extend the functionality of the ADTF Configuration Editor

• Filter Editor within ADTF Configuration Editor
• Scripting within ADTF Configuration Editor

Additional information

• Operation Modes
• Clock Concept
• Kernel Concept
• Plugin Description Concept
• Micro Component Object Model Concept (uCOM)
• Attached Files
• Environment variables
• Macros
• Versioned namespaces
• DDL Editor Package