thanks... I'll search for such filter management systems. In all my years of
working with Movie Maker, I've not come across anything that is a tool for
users rather than programmers.

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"zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> "PapaJohn" <papajohn@chartermi.net> wrote in message
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>> Thanks... but you don't say why the codecs supplied with the operating
>> system take a back seat to the 3rd party ones when they get installed.
>> Seems that stronger operating system management of codecs would be a step
>> toward resolving things, and would be an appropriate thing to expect from
>> an operating system..
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> You're right, I did not discuss the filter merit system, which is
> available for look up on MSDN. That's been around since I believe
> DirectShow first existed back (previous to 1996?). Belligerant and bad
> filters are a *very* recent phenonemon. The right people are aware of
> this issue. In the interim, there's a variety of third party filter
> management systems available.
>
> The easiest correct solution is probably not to install random bad
> software on a machine. ;-)
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> This area sucks. The right people are aware of it. It sucks because you
> have bad filters being installed by incompetent installers. I was going
> to make a comment about the Windows codec management system, but then I
> realized that wasn't fair because there really hasn't been a good
> (Microsoft) one ever. The right people are aware of this. Don't install
> random codecs.
>
>> And what WMP shows for the video codec isn't an idle question... I'd much
>> prefer having WMP tell me what it's using than to have to check the file
>> with GSpot or another utility and guess what WMP is using. And I'm using
>> the pointer in WMP to tell me what Movie Maker is using, as the
>> properties of the files in MM don't include the codec used.
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> IIRC, it's abstracted out - there's no "DirectShow::WhatCodecAmIUsing();"
> method that I'm aware of. Patrick looked into this a while ago, I'll
> mention it to him next time we have lunch together.
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> Speaking for myself only.
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
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