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<blockquote data-quote="samuel337" data-source="post: 68168" data-attributes="member: 10347">Much as I hate to disagree, I have to say I do.There is merit in the merit discussion because the installation of MP should not in theory affect the running of any other programs. Not everyone is going to know to download radlight and change it if a problem occurs - and there's no point telling them to do so because a) you're inconveniencing the user, and b) they're effectively fixing a problem that we created to start off with.You concluded that the problem lies with the way the programs trust DirectShow to pick the correct filters. While MP's solution does ensure it always works, MP should not be doing something that causes DirectShow's merit system to not work properly. Sure DirectShow's merit system may not be perfect, but the system is there, is a Windows standard and is known to 'generally work' (if all apps complied with the rules), so there's no reason why we should go in there and stuff it up.My 2 cents... anyway, it looks like we've worked out why the problem is occurring so it shouldn't be hard to fix it.Sam</blockquote>

[QUOTE="samuel337, post: 68168, member: 10347"] Much as I hate to disagree, I have to say I do. There is merit in the merit discussion because the installation of MP should not in theory affect the running of any other programs. Not everyone is going to know to download radlight and change it if a problem occurs - and there's no point telling them to do so because a) you're inconveniencing the user, and b) they're effectively fixing a problem that we created to start off with. You concluded that the problem lies with the way the programs trust DirectShow to pick the correct filters. While MP's solution does ensure it always works, MP should not be doing something that causes DirectShow's merit system to not work properly. Sure DirectShow's merit system may not be perfect, but the system is there, is a Windows standard and is known to 'generally work' (if all apps complied with the rules), so there's no reason why we should go in there and stuff it up. My 2 cents... anyway, it looks like we've worked out why the problem is occurring so it shouldn't be hard to fix it. Sam [/QUOTE]

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