What does ffdshow audio/video decoder mean?

Question

2 new icons have appeared at the bottom of my computor and i dont know what they mean, and what they are there for? can anyone tell me why? Can i remove them? If so, how do i remove them?

Answer 1

ffdshow is a media decoder and encoder mainly used for the fast and high-quality decoding of video in the MPEG-4 ASP and AVC (H.264) formats, but supporting numerous other video and audio formats as well.

To uninstall open unins000.exe found in the c:\Program Files\ffdshow folder. Or run the uninstall from the main Windows start menu, one of the choices in the ffdshow folder.