And lo On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:11:59 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake thusly:

> Warp wrote:
>
>>   All video players using DirectX have this option (at least internally;
>> some might not offer it in their GUI). It's a hardware/DirectX thing.
>
> Since you clearly know more about this than me... In what way is  
> "DirectShow" related to "DirectX"?

Orignally all the APIs were called DirectSomething and then got grouped  
and distributed under the generic DirectX title. DirectShow was renamed  
 from ActiveShow at that time for consistency reasons but was later dropped  
 from DirectX downloads and was issued under the Windows SDK.

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