Problems with Direct Show

try using the bstr macro with the parameters.

_bstr_t(char *);

I believe the _bstr_t class can return a char * or a wchar * in its class (along with taking both as a parameter), so it works well for these type of situations/conversions.

I could be wrong with what I'm about to say, but I'll say it anyway. I think the reason you get "memory problems" when using strlen(filename), is because WCHAR has a size of > 1 byte.

So for example, say your filename was, "test.mp3". strlen() would return 8, but if WCHAR was say 2 bytes wide, you'd be allocating half the size of which you required, because 8 * 2 = 16.

This might work instead:

LPWSTR pfilename2 = new WCHAR[strlen(filename) * sizeof(WCHAR)];
   

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

-hellz

Edit: Obviously you'd have to use this same method for when you're using strlen() in those other functions as well. Would be best to store the first result of strlen(), so that it doesn't have to be calculated over and over again.

Edit 2: You'd have to add space for the terminating null character as well, like so:

LPWSTR pfilename2 = new WCHAR[strlen(filename) * sizeof(WCHAR) + sizeof(WCHAR)];
 

[edited by - hellz on November 12, 2003 2:05:20 PM]

hmm i tried the both way, but in the fisrt case i neded to include comutil.h which worked fine, but when compiling the compiler didn''t fin some source

and in the second case where still a memory leak.....

but i solved it in this way:

int nLen = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0,filename, -1, NULL, NULL);


which is the lenght of the new string, however, i have no clue what i did .....took it from the docs

hey! thanks both of you!