theora dev - Sep 2002 - Installing vp31vfw.dll - how?

Hello,

We put the DirectShow filters on hold till the release of our software
(next week) and will integrate it into the first patch. Till then, our
customers will ahve to live with a VP31 vfw hack.

Now, my problem is that I need to integrate the vp31vfw.dll setup into a
MSI file, because spawning another installer is not exactly an option.

Can anyone post a list of complete registry keys that I need to push?

My main prob,em is - I also downloaded the sources, but the .INF file
tehre has very little resemblance with the registry keys I find on my
computer :-(

Regards

Thomas Tomiczek
THONA Consulting Ltd.
(Microsoft MVP C#/.NET)

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My understanding is that it should be fine to install the .DLL with no
registry key at all.  It will create one when first invoked.

Problems will occur however if someone has an old version of VP3 that used
different reg keys.  That is highly unlikely but you should probably cover
it in a readme.  Any previous installation of VP3 should be removed.

Another alternative is to let the user install vp3 from
www.vp3.com/getvp3.  However note that the builds there may be a bit out
of date.

<p> ___  Dan Miller
(++,) CTO and founder, On2 Technologies

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Thomas Tomiczek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We put the DirectShow filters on hold till the release of our software
> (next week) and will integrate it into the first patch. Till then, our
> customers will ahve to live with a VP31 vfw hack.
>
> Now, my problem is that I need to integrate the vp31vfw.dll setup into a
> MSI file, because spawning another installer is not exactly an option.
>
> Can anyone post a list of complete registry keys that I need to push?
>
> My main prob,em is - I also downloaded the sources, but the .INF file
> tehre has very little resemblance with the registry keys I find on my
> computer :-(
>
> Regards
>
> Thomas Tomiczek
> THONA Consulting Ltd.
> (Microsoft MVP C#/.NET)
>
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"install the DLL without registry keys" will NOT make VfW know that
the
DLL exists.

As we are still using it out of DirectShow, DirectShow will not be able
to wrap the filter, as it does not know it exists.

So, what ARE the registry keys?

Thomas Tomiczek
THONA Consulting Ltd.
(Microsovt MCP C#/.NET)

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel B. Miller [mailto:dan@on2.com] 
Sent: Montag, 2. September 2002 22:17
To: theora-dev@xiph.org
Cc: owner-theora-dev@xiph.org
Subject: Re: [theora-dev] Installing vp31vfw.dll - how?

<p>My understanding is that it should be fine to install the .DLL with no
registry key at all.  It will create one when first invoked.

Problems will occur however if someone has an old version of VP3 that
used different reg keys.  That is highly unlikely but you should
probably cover it in a readme.  Any previous installation of VP3 should
be removed.

Another alternative is to let the user install vp3 from
www.vp3.com/getvp3.  However note that the builds there may be a bit out
of date.

<p> ___  Dan Miller
(++,) CTO and founder, On2 Technologies

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Thomas Tomiczek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We put the DirectShow filters on hold till the release of our software
> (next week) and will integrate it into the first patch. Till then, our
> customers will ahve to live with a VP31 vfw hack.
>
> Now, my problem is that I need to integrate the vp31vfw.dll setup into
> a MSI file, because spawning another installer is not exactly an 
> option.
>
> Can anyone post a list of complete registry keys that I need to push?
>
> My main prob,em is - I also downloaded the sources, but the .INF file 
> tehre has very little resemblance with the registry keys I find on my 
> computer :-(
>
> Regards
>
> Thomas Tomiczek
> THONA Consulting Ltd.
> (Microsoft MVP C#/.NET)
>
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