The MIPlayer (MIP) is a configuration tool for MPEG-Inspectors MI.
It's task is to prepare MI's interfaces to Windows DirectShow (DShow) in a way that MI is able to show the decoded picture of the selected frame and to play the video instead of showing the video's data as numbers and texts only.
At this time, the user documentation for the MIPlayer is only available in form of the document MIP_Guide_de.pdf (refer to Downloads ).

MIP contains of 4 components which are presented to the user in the panels of the same name:

• Player for playing videos for test reasons
   
• Configurator for configurating of filter sets
   
• FilterManager for managing DirectShow filters
   
• SessionReport containing information about actions and events

MIP's Player isn't a Video-Player in the usual sense, since substantial features of a regular player are missing. There is e.g. neither a full screen presentation nor a playlist included. Nevertheless MIP can play videos in particularly precise way, if suitable DShow filters are available on the PC system and configured to a filter set.

If the System's Default Filter Set (1st position in the pull-down-menu) is selected while loading a video, MIP should be able to play all video formats for which filters are registered. The filter chain will be noted in the session report and includes in this case also the used audio filters.

If another filter set (not the 1st) is selected, the player in MIP can only play MPEG-2 videos (actually MPEG-2 Program Stream) and it's compatible formats like VOB and M2V. Here is the main task of MIP, the preparation of filter sets for analyzing MPEG videos with the MPEG-Inspector MI.

With the player's Import Function prepared filter sets can be downloaded from our Download aerea and tested for working on a particular system.

MIP's Configurator gives the possibility to create own filter sets based on the existing filters on the system

The FilterManager of MIP supports the user to find his way in the huge number of installed SourceFilters, Demuxers, Decoders and Renderers. He can detect which filters are installed, can modify the ranking of usage (merits) as well as create batch-files for deregistering single filters or a group of filters from DirectShow

In MIP's SessionReport all relevant actions and events are noted for helping the user to keep the overview.