Apparently, my problem was that my GUI program did CoInitialize and this prevented the one in the dshow_dev.c from working. Removing the CoInitialize in the GUI solved my problem. I have added some code to the "dshow_factory_init" to alert about such an event, so I save some debugging days from my fellow programmers: /* API: init factory */ static pj_status_t dshow_factory_init(pjmedia_vid_dev_factory *f) { ??? HRESULT hr; ??? hr = CoInitializeEx(NULL, COINIT_MULTITHREADED); ??? if (FAILED (hr)) { ??? ??? char msg[80]; ??? ??? if (AMGetErrorText(hr, msg, sizeof(msg))) ??? ??? ??? PJ_LOG(4,(THIS_FILE, "****? Unable to CoInitizeEx!? ******: %s (hr=0x%x)", msg, hr)); ??? ??? else PJ_LOG(4,(THIS_FILE, "****? Unable to CoInitizeEx!? ******: (hr=0x%x)", hr)); ??? ??? PJ_ASSERT_RETURN(0, PJ_ECANCELLED); ??? } ??? ??? return dshow_factory_refresh(f); } --- On Thu, 12/29/11, mik <rivael_il at yahoo.com> wrote: From: mik <rivael_il@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: Crash on pjvideo To: "pjsip list" <pjsip at lists.pjsip.org> Date: Thursday, December 29, 2011, 4:13 PM Hello, When the built-in camera is not instantiated a crash occur at: IMediaFilter_Stop(stream->dgraph.media_filter); because the pointer is null. I have change the code to: if (stream->dgraph.media_filter) ????? IMediaFilter_Stop(stream->dgraph.media_filter); and this solve the crash. I still have the problem of not able to render/filter the camera. The error messages are: 22:28:51.500??? pjsua_vid.c? .......Setting up TX.. 22:28:51.500??? pjsua_vid.c? ........Creating video window: type=preview, cap_id=0, rend_id=2 22:31:50.796???? vid_port.c? .........Opening device Integrated Webcam [dshow] for capture: format=YUY2, size=352x288 @30000:1001 fps 22:32:36.937??? dshow_dev.c? .........Error creating filter graph: CoInitialize has not been called.? (hr=0x800401f0) 22:32:36.937??? dshow_dev.c? .........Trying to open dshow dev with default fps 22:32:36.937??? dshow_dev.c? .........Error creating filter graph: CoInitialize has not been called.? (hr=0x800401f0) 22:32:36.937??? dshow_dev.c? .........Trying to open dshow dev with default size & fps 22:32:36.937??? dshow_dev.c? .........Error creating filter graph: CoInitialize has not been called.? (hr=0x800401f0) 22:32:50.000??? dshow_dev.c? .........Stopping dshow video stream 22:33:37.281???? vid_port.c? .........Closing Integrated Webcam.. 22:33:53.453??? pjsua_vid.c? .........Window 1: destroying.. 22:34:33.359? pjsua_media.c? .......Error updating media call00:1: Unknown Error (PJ_EUNKNOWN) (CoInitialize HAS been called.) Any idea? Thanks, Michael -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ Visit our blog: http://blog.pjsip.org pjsip mailing list pjsip at lists.pjsip.org http://lists.pjsip.org/mailman/listinfo/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.pjsip.org/pipermail/pjsip_lists.pjsip.org/attachments/20111231/e44c2ca9/attachment-0001.html>