ltmmTargetFormat.UseFilterCache Property

Visual Basic Example

Syntax

object.UseFilterCache As Boolean

Remarks

Gets a value that indicates whether the toolkit is currently caching filters; or sets a value that indicates whether to enable or disable the caching of filters. Possible values are:

Value

Description

When getting a value that indicates whether the toolkit is currently caching filters:

TRUE

The toolkit is caching filters.

FALSE

The toolkit is not caching filters.

When setting a value that indicates whether to enable or disable the caching of filters:

TRUE

Enable the caching of filters.

FALSE

Disable the caching of filters.

The default value is FALSE.

Setting this property to TRUE will force the toolkit to preload and reuse the filters specified for the particular format. Setting this property to TRUE will enable caching for the current target format The format to be used for the converted file. This includes the file format, any special settings used by that format, and which audio and/or video codec A COmpressor combined with a DECompressor, or encoder and a decoder, which allows you to both compress and decompress that same data. is to be used for the conversion, and any special settings used by the codecs. object. If there is no currently created object, one will be created.

Setting the value of this property to FALSE will disable the caching for the current target format object. If an object currently exists, it will destroy it.

Use the ltmmTargetFormat.GetCacheObject method to retrieve the caching filter object. Use the ltmmTargetFormat.ShowCacheDialog method to display a specific property dialog for the caching filter. Use the ltmmTargetFormat.HasCacheDialog method to query whether the specified property dialog for the caching filter is available.

See Also

Elements:

ltmmTargetFormat.GetCacheObject method, ltmmTargetFormat.HasCacheDialog method, ltmmTargetFormat.ShowCacheDialog method

Topics:

Multimedia Properties, Methods and Events