Moving the DirectShow SDK is definitely awkward. I'm not sure what the benefit was supposed to be, but it was moved and that's where it's at. All we can do is spread the word. tanvon malik wrote: they are not calling it deprecated, but behaving like that, I would say "matured", not deprecated. There's no further development going on for pre-Vista OS versions, so continued development will be for the new technologies introduced in Vista. Microsoft Media Foundation[^] is the next generation :) Cheers, Mark Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java: