Any one know how and had any success doing silent installs for ac3filter and ffdshow, i can't find the silent install switches to use.

For the ac3 filter I used %systemdrive%\install\ac3\setup.exe /S (on ver 0.70b), the /S needs to be upper case, for it to work.

Hi smartass,

I waste so many time to find a way to make an unattended install on ffdshow, and finaly i find one. Maybe it's not the best way, but it's working for me.

First you have to copy directory c:\Program Files\ffdshow to $OEM$\$1\install\ffdshow (or your installation directory);

Then you have to export all the keys from the registry whre you find "ffdshow" (I don't thing that all of them are needed, bud don't know which are general, so I export them all) and make them all in one registry file;

And finaly you have to register ffdshow.ax with "regsvr32.exe ffdshow.ax /s"

So for all this actions I've add this string to my C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\install\command.cmd file

Here is the lines:

ECHO Installing ffdshow 20030927
ECHO Please wait...
xcopy "%systemdrive%\install\ffdshow" "%systemdrive%\Program Files\ffdshow" /e /c /q /h /r /y /i
regedit /s "%systemdrive%\install\ffdshow\ffdshow.reg"
regsvr32.exe "%systemdrive%\Program Files\ffdshow\ffdshow.ax" /s


I'm sorry, but there's no place to upload ffdshow.reg file, and it's not a good idea to paste it here, because it too long.

I hope this will be usefull to you, and excuse my English.

P.S. I've just saw that thre is an option to attach a file, and here it is my version of ffdshow.reg

what are the switches for on the xcopy command line?

You can see all switches for xcopy by typing in command prompt "xcopy /?"

If you don't want to xcopy ffdshow you can put the ffdshow files in C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$Progs\ffdshow

If Windows XP is being installed to C:\ than Windows Setup will copy your ffdshow files to C:\Program Files\ffdshow

And only left to do is to register ffdshow.ax extension, and add ffdshow.reg to registry. Maybe this is the right way to do this, not with xcopy.

is anyone else having troubles importing that registry, ffdshow.reg?

I keep getting errors on it.

for the ffdshow I monitored the install with installrite and made an exe to run from RunOnceEx, it came out around 800kb.

I have had no problems viewing videos with this codec and the config program runs from the shortcut so I'm happy