Personally I have been 'clinging' to WMP9 for 18 months or so... If your location is USA it tries vigorously to update you to 10, but I have learned if I set location to Canada it does not ;^) I have the Media Player 9 installation exe (13.3MB) which they do not offer anymore, so I can upgrade to it but no further... LoL - this here is good advice too :^) But I am okay with 9, it's with 10 that I have heard about all kinds of problems. Note that only DivX 5.2.1 is SP2-compatible - dunno if that helps anyone... L8R
Since I use MS Mediaplayer 10 all the time I don't want to even test FFDShow! I don't want no chrashes on my computer. What is FFDShow actually there for? What do you do with it? I have not experiences with it. I would need a really good reason to try it.
If it does cause crashes, then uninstalling should sort it. Only crash I have heard of with my latest build is with using the VirtualDub plugin (the plugin, not encoding via VfW). ffdshow is basically a VfW/dshow wrapper for libavcodec and other opensource media related libs (mplayer, x264, mad, etc.). It supports decoding (both vide and audio) and encoding numerous formats, along with subtitles and other filters. Some of the things that it supports decoding: XviD, DivX and other MPEG4 video AVC/h.264 video MPEG1/2 video theora video mp3/1/2 audio AC3 audio aac audio vorbis audio and the list goes on.