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It's not possible to select which codec is handled by what decoder. Thank you for your quick reply. Very timely. :D But I didn't understand your reply. Probably because I'm such a newbie at this. What I want to do is tell VLC to use external CODECs (e.g., those available from Windows) instead of it...

Hello, So I started VLC 3.0.4 with the "--codec dmo" switch. But when I look in Video Codecs (under Tools->Preferences -->ALL --Video Codecs, I still do not see a way to make the following setting as recommended by the Wiki. Select Other codecs and tick Prefer system plugins over VLC 1) &q...