Thanks tourettes,
got it to link. I read and followed those instructions before already, but I am working with VS2008 and for some reason it did not pick up the correct strmbase.lib even though all paths looked right.
I did a dumpbin and saw that the missing symbols were indeed in the lib under Release_MBCS...
anyhow, I reference it now with the full path name and it works... (I really do not miss C++)
Meanwhile I was getting to the real work that I wanted to do, and that is getting the TsReader to work with ffdshow for h264 content... I am in the middle of rewriting the way the Format is set in CMediaType (which is pretty ugly at the moment usign a hard coded byte array

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I started a thread on this
I think I really need some help on this, since I am not an DirectShow filter expert. Could you help me, or do you know somebody else in the dev team I could send a PM ?
justinteractive