Another improvement proposal

[Vittorio]

First of all I would like to mention that your tool has given me the HUGE initial help in developing the commercial software. Thanks a lot for this. I'm experienced win32, com and com+ developer but have never worked with direct show. Nevertheles I think that some proposals could help to make your software even more distinguishing from the rest of the world.

1. I think you don't enumerate the filter categories but group the filter into known ones. Am I right? This leads to the result that e.g the category "Nero Digital" won't appear even if actually present in system. Beside that, this would be very helpful sometimes to know the GUID of the filter category including a specific filter e.g. if I want to implement my own enumerator. BTW as a side effect the display name of the filter you embed into to the generated program code and pass to MkParseDisplayName depends on the category the filter was detected in.
2. This would be great to be able to influence other templates but the listed, e.g. for setting the pin video parameters, looking for the specific pins etc
3. Additional useful templates would be the manipultaion of the property bag entries, its storing and recalling.

[Dee Mon]

1. Actually, I do enumerate categories. There is a meta-category called ActiveMovieCategories (usually the first one in the drop-down list), it contains all the categories found. There you can see guids of each category as CLSID. However the main tree of filters now contains a known set of categories. I can't remember why this is so, probably this should be fixed in the next version.

2 & 3. I guess you're right.