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Strange - for me the turn-around time of a call is slightly below a second. But this is still very long compared to solving a compressor of course.

Let me know if you succeed with the COM binding via python - I have never looked into that.

Not sure whether the Python route will work. Pythoncom's idea of early binding is looking up the types and dispIDs in the TLB, and then create a py class that calls DispInvoke. and the latter of course depends on a proper implementation of IDispatch, which is exactly why late binding does not work.

I suppose to get proper early binding (call the interface functions, instead of DispInvoke), one would have to generate some c- or cpp-based python classes. Probably not what you are looking for.

Is this solution working for you?

Hi Jasper, thanks a lot for posting your solution & sorry for the delayed response! I was going to update the post after trying out your workaround, but unfortunately haven't had a chance to do so yet. I'll let you know as soon as I can test it.

note that the recent COFE update contains some additional fixes.