Re: For all G4C music lovers

I may perhaps be useful to explain a bit about how audio and video works on Windows for
those who doesn't know already.

MCI was the first interface for Windows and it was followed up years ago already by DirectShow.
MCI was based on VFW (video for windows) which is a system that basically can't play anything.
Just the same goes for DirectShow. It are both systems to control audio and video decoders.

Athough Windows includes some basic decoders, all the more recent stuff like h.264
(in mp4 or mov container) has to come from third party sources. So it's still possible that you
can't play certain formats. 

As for Fer, if he has only some outdated default decoders on his system, it could still be
possible he can't play mp3's with ID3-tags.

Some people say, yeah but VLC player can play it, why not Windows Media Player for example.
Well, that is because some video players bring all these decoders with them without making
them available to the VFW or DirectShow system.

I have FFdshow installed on my system which covers almost every audio and video decoder
around in one singele package. http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffdshow http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ffdshow
You can enable and disable them freely if you prefer another decoder that is already on your
system.
Some containers like mkv also require to install a splitter separately (e.g. Haali media splitter
aka Matroska splitter) http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Haali-Media-Splitter http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Haali-Media-Splitter

Chris