On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:06 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig &lt;<a href="mailto:zmoelnig@iem.at">zmoelnig@iem.at</a>&gt; wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
i never understood the difference between DirectX and DirectShow. isn&#39;t the latter just a part of the former? just like Direct3D?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I think DirectShow was part of DirectX at one time, but it is now part of the main windows SDK (which might be called the Platform SDK by MS).&nbsp; <br>&nbsp;</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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anyhow, at least when installing the SDK i had to also install a redistributable runtime-environment. i don&#39;t know whether this is needed for an end-user of Gem too (my only w32 machine now has the runtime-environment installed, so i cannot check :-))<div class="Ih2E3d">
</div></blockquote><div><br>That is the really shitty part.&nbsp; Some PCs, like ones from Dell, have all of the DLLs installed by default.&nbsp; Other PCs do not have them.&nbsp; Also, the versions of various DLLs and libs might not play well together.&nbsp; The idea that every app distributed should include all of these files it idiotic.&nbsp; <br>
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i probably misunderstood the original question.<br>
right, as far as quicktime is concerned, only the QT SDK is needed.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>The end user will have to either install iTunes or find the QT only download from Apple.&nbsp; They hide the latter, but hell everyone and their dog has an iPod now right? ;)<br><br>cgc<br></div></div><br>