Getting DirectShow Samples on Windows 8

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I want to create a Virtual Webcam for Windows 8 and I have two choices: DirectShow or Microsoft Media Foundation. After some looking around I found out that DirectShow has much more exmples and even here on Stackoverflow it gets recommended over MMF. So I want to get started with some examples and for this I need strmbase.dll, which I need to compile myself from the BaseClass sample of the DirectShow samples.

But getting the samples seems freaking impossible on Windows 8. According to this page it should be a part of Windows 8 SDK, but this is fully installed and no folder by the name of baseclass exists anywhere on my computer. It is also part of Windows 7 sdk, but this refuses to install. I also read that it should be part of DirectX SDK, but this has, according to MS, been included into Windows 8 SDK, and thus the DirectX SDK refuses to install.

How do I install the DirectShow samples on Windows 8?

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Current DirectShow samples location is Windows SDK. Before that, they were on extras and it dates back to 2004-2005 (although, the samples has minimal changes since then). If you have hard time getting them in Windows 8 now, maybe you can install Windows SDK onto virtual [older] system and then just copy from there. – Roman R.

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I got them, but it was through a dirty trick:

Download the Win 7 SDK ISO, extract it, go into the WinSDKSamples_amd64 folder and run the installer. All Win 7 SDK samples will now be installed to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1.