>>365471971
lol this entire exchange has been wild to watch. 
>>365471636
MF takes over all media playback in windows unless you have ASIO and other things like DTS-X. 
Things like intel's gpu and nvidia and amd gpus have this little section in their control panel for video. It "hooks" all media playback by listening to the kernel and COMPLETELY takes over, if your drivers are set up right. Some software does that natively, but when you play anything considered media using a kernel codec filter driver in windows, it's almost -always- using a hardware decoder, unless you installed cccp or klite or lav and didn't configure it, which would force it back out to software and slow your system down. And yes, that means mp3 playback inside and out of video too. Stop fighting, you're clearly both knowledgeable, just in different areas.