Hi,

Here is a question about IMFActivate::ActivateObject and IMFActivate::ShutdownObject in Media Foundation.

According to MSDN, the component that calls ActivateObject is responsible for calling ShutdownObject.

But there are two examples not following this rule:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd388503%28VS.85%29.aspx

and

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317912%28VS.85%29.aspx

In these two examples, they call ActivateObject and then release IMFActivate interface without calling ShutdownObject method.

This is going to lead to memory leaking, right? Or there is another way to release the resource occupied by the object?

(Can I use IMFMediaSource::Shutdown to release the object instead of using IMFActivate::ShutdownObject)

Thanks in advance.