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Sean's script uses COM. I never had a success using scripts with COM. I don't know what it is and am quite "afraid" of it. Can anybody, please, explain or give me a link where I could learn how to use it? Thank you.

Sean's script is simply demonstrating how applications can access the DirectShow Filters through COM, which is why media players such as Real Player or Windows Media Player can play more or less files depending on the codecs (er, I guess the correct term is "DirectShow Filters," but they are more commonly referred to as codecs?) installed on your computer.
(At least, this is my understanding. Apologies if I am mistaken..)

@ Your second post: (You should edit rather than double post in the future)
There is a thread devoted to the AHK release of COM that can be found here. However, COM is not only an AHK device, but used by many languages.

I've only discovered COM through AHK since it is my only programming experience, and my very limited knowledge of it has been mainly achieved through trial and error, as well as looking at other scripts on the forum that use COM, so I feel I should let someone other than myself give any further explanation.

What OS are you using and where did you get your DivX from? I just installed DivX7 from one website, but the video still can't be played. I am using Windows XP.

For codecs, I would suggest the Combined Community Codec Pack found at http://www.cccp-project.net. So far I haven't encountered anything it doesn't have codecs for.

COM.ahk in your system may be outdated, download it again.

Right. What I did is essentially the same as MCI does instead for you when calling mciSendString.
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic20666.html

BTW, the documentation on DirectShow in MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd375454.aspx

Sean and Krogdor, thank you!

but how and where can use it?
i dont know any thing about, plz hlp