DirectShow or DirectAnimation for JPEG formats?

[Eshanye]

Hello,

I'm quite new to this technology - DirectX and I'm supposed to take some
decisions which has become quite difficult because of my shallow
knowledge. Well, I need your help. Here is the stuff I'm handling. I
have a JPEG card and a NT 4 Kernel driver for that. Also there is a dll
which the upper layer uses to communicate with this card. Now, I have to
have a uppermost application which is like a movie play (something like
that, I don't know what i should say). My main aim is to decompress and
compress still pictures. But to demo this i need an app which is as i
told. Because the final product is that. So i send a series of still
pictures to JPEG card to compress and I decompress them and play it
back. This I should do in a loop. Now that the question is ...

The hierarchy is :-

1. Movie play -- upper most layer
2.
3.
.
.
.
n-2. API dll
n-1.Kernel Mode JPEG driver
n. JPEG card

So can anybody tell me what should be there in the middle... the
DirectShow (With all the filters to do the operation ) or the Direct
Animation ?

And if it is DirectShow, then will it support JPEG formats ?

regards
Esha

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