wmfdist95.exe and Vista

[Francis Van Aeken]

Running wmfdist95.exe under Vista doesn't seem to do anything. Detection as
described in http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385070.aspx fails: no
registry entry is written.

Does anybody know how to fix this?

[Jeremy Noring]

Post by Francis Van Aeken
Running wmfdist95.exe under Vista doesn't seem to do anything. Detection as
described in http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385070.aspx fails: no
registry entry is written.
Does anybody know how to fix this?

I don't think there's anything to fix. It probably doesn't do anything
because Vista should already have the Windows Media 11 runtime installed on
it. Try installing the runtime that comes with WMFSDK 11 (this is the x86
version):

WMFDist11-WindowsXP-X86-ENU.exe

...and see if that does anything for you. Note that there's an error in the
WMFSDK 11 documentation:

"The inclusion of Windows Media Format software in an application setup is
known as redistribution. The Windows Media Format SDK includes an
installation package which can be included with your application setup. The
installation package is an executable file named wmfdist95.exe. When you
install the Windows Media Format SDK, the installation package is copied to
the \Redist folder of the install directory (c:\wmsdk\wmfsdk by default)."

...the installation package that is shipping with WMFSDK11 is *not*
wmfdist95.exe; this is just incorrect documentation.

The general answer here is that WMF 11 is probably already present on Vista,
and you don't need to check the registry to see if the redistribution
installed anything.

[Francis Van Aeken]

Thanks Jeremy, I wanted to investigate this, but I did not find a download
link for WMFSDK 11 on the Microsoft site. I'll check the MSDN DVDs. It must
be on there somewhere. But then, as you've pointed out, maybe nothing has to
be installed...

Post by Jeremy Noring

Post by Francis Van Aeken
Running wmfdist95.exe under Vista doesn't seem to do anything. Detection as
described in http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385070.aspx fails: no
registry entry is written.
Does anybody know how to fix this?

I don't think there's anything to fix. It probably doesn't do anything
because Vista should already have the Windows Media 11 runtime installed on
it. Try installing the runtime that comes with WMFSDK 11 (this is the x86
WMFDist11-WindowsXP-X86-ENU.exe
...and see if that does anything for you. Note that there's an error in the
"The inclusion of Windows Media Format software in an application setup is
known as redistribution. The Windows Media Format SDK includes an
installation package which can be included with your application setup. The
installation package is an executable file named wmfdist95.exe. When you
install the Windows Media Format SDK, the installation package is copied to
the \Redist folder of the install directory (c:\wmsdk\wmfsdk by default)."
...the installation package that is shipping with WMFSDK11 is *not*
wmfdist95.exe; this is just incorrect documentation.
The general answer here is that WMF 11 is probably already present on Vista,
and you don't need to check the registry to see if the redistribution
installed anything.

[Alessandro Angeli]

From: "Francis Van Aeken"

Post by Francis Van Aeken
Thanks Jeremy, I wanted to investigate this, but I did
not find a download link for WMFSDK 11 on the Microsoft
site. I'll check the MSDN DVDs. It must be on there
somewhere. But then, as you've pointed out, maybe nothing
has to be installed...

All WM-related SDKs, including WMF11:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmedia/bb190309.aspx

However, Vista can not help but to have WMF11 pre-installed,
since it contains WMP11.