@clsid: Please don't assume I read wrong, maybe it's me who should encourage to read better. I never said you said the external settings to be forbidden. I was talking about merit settings, and in relation on
CoRoNe's post.
The thing is I never asked whether FFDShow was worth or not, my questions always were; "how can I make LAVFilters work normally (as my default splitter-decoder) while having ffdshow installed as well?"
And answers all were in the tone of, don't touch merits, don't touch external filters, uninstall ffdshow...
And no, I don't store settings in ini, I never do. (I guess this is a proof of
what Superb meant on being considered an average Joe...) : P
@dansrfe: No, I never considered changing merits inside MPC-HC, if ever I'd use graphstudio or the more recent recommendation DirectShowFilterManager. All I ever did inside MPC was to block or prefer filters.