Object.Merit(Name As String) As long |
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Name |
Name is a string that can show either the Display Name or the Friendly Name of the filter. It is better to use Display Name since display names are unique. Two filters can be different and yet still have the same Friendly Name. When two Friendly Names are used, this function works on the first filter it internally enumerates with the specified friendly name. |
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Gets or sets a value that indicates the merit of a DirectShow filter. Merit values are used when building filter graphs. For more information, refer to the Microsoft documentation for DirectShow Merit.
A Display Name uniquely identifies a Directshow filter (or any filter). Display names for software filters have the following format:
@device:sw:GUID\\GUID
For example, Microsoft’s MPEG-2 Splitter display name is:
@device:sw:{083863F1-70DE-11D0-BD40-00A0C911CE86}\\{3AE86B20-7BE8-11D1-ABE6-00A0C905F375}.
Since a Friendly Name is not unique there can be more than one filter with the same name. Despite this, it is useful as a descriptive name in user interfaces. For example, the Friendly Name for Microsoft’s MPEG-2 Splitter is MPEG-2 Splitter.
Assigning a value to this property can raise an exception. For more information, refer to the Error Codes.
Win32, x64
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