# GraphEdit

<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">GraphEdit is a little known tool distributed with Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) and allows exploring camera settings and video rendering filters. A copy of the old version (which worked just fine without installing the whole SDK) can be found wildly on the internet. Besides the ability to tinker with options it is a much more advanced tool for viewing live view than for example VLC. There are even more advanced commercial modifications but original will be just fine. For more details check </span>[<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; ; color: #4a6ee0;">Wiki pages</span>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphEdit)<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">. </span>A local copy of GraphEdit 9 can be found [**here**](https://www.kurokesu.com/uploads/2016-07-24_graphedit/geinst.zip)<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">.  
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Below is a quick guide

- Download, unzip and Install GraphEdit-x86.exe or GraphEdit-x64.exe (if in doubt chose GraphEdit-x86.exe)
- Run graphedt.exe from the installed location
- Empty program window should appear
- Click on menu item **Graph / Insert Filters…**

**[![graphview_1.png](https://wiki.kurokesu.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-08/scaled-1680-/graphview_1.png)](https://wiki.kurokesu.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-08/graphview_1.png)**

- <span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Locate </span>**<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Video Capture Sources</span>**<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"> and select the needed device and press </span>**<span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Insert Filter</span>**

**[![graphview_2.png](https://wiki.kurokesu.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-08/scaled-1680-/graphview_2.png)](https://wiki.kurokesu.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-08/graphview_2.png)**

- <span data-preserver-spaces="true" style="color: #0e101a; background: transparent; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;">Now locate a pin and click the right mouse button.</span>

[![graphview_3.png](https://wiki.kurokesu.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-08/scaled-1680-/graphview_3.png)](https://wiki.kurokesu.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-08/graphview_3.png)

As we further inspect all pins, we can find out that one pin has YUY2 and MJPG output options, another one is for H264.

- Chose options as needed or leave intact
- Right-click a pin again and click **Render Pin**

**[![graphview_4.png](https://wiki.kurokesu.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-08/scaled-1680-/graphview_4.png)](https://wiki.kurokesu.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-08/graphview_4.png)**

- Click the **Play** button or press **Space key** to play video.

[![graphview_6.png](https://wiki.kurokesu.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-08/scaled-1680-/graphview_6.png)](https://wiki.kurokesu.com/uploads/images/gallery/2020-08/graphview_6.png)

Original blog post is [still here](https://www.kurokesu.com/main/2016/08/04/exploring-and-displaying-usb-video-with-graphedit/)