To Disable Automatic Indexing - Win32 apps (2024)

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You may not always want an index to be generated by default when writing an ASF file. You can disable automatic indexing by using the IWMWriterFileSink3::SetAutoIndexing method.

The following example code demonstrates how to disable automatic indexing by the writer.

IWMWriterFileSink* pBaseFileSink = NULL;IWMWriterFileSink3* pMySink = NULL;BOOL fAutoIndex;HRESULT hr = S_OK;// Initialize COM.hr = CoInitialize(NULL);// Create a writer file sink.hr = WMCreateWriterFileSink(&pBaseFileSink);// Retrieve an IWMWriterFileSink3 interface pointer for the new sink.hr = pBaseFileSink->QueryInterface(IID_IWMWriterFileSink3, (void**)&pMySink);// Release the base file sink.pBaseFileSink->Release();pBaseFileSink = NULL;// Check the state of automatic indexing.hr = pMySink->GetAutoIndexing(&fAutoIndex);// If auto indexing is enabled, turn it off.if(fAutoIndex) pMySink->SetAutoIndexing(FALSE);// You can now write to this sink and the file will not have an index.// Release the remaining interface.pMySink->Release();pMySink = NULL;

Related topics

IWMWriterFileSink3::GetAutoIndexing

WMCreateWriterFileSink

Working with Indexes

See Also

How to Turn Off Indexing Windows 10?