Several years ago, I wrote an article for MSDN on programming against the DVR-MS file format. I'm very pleased with how well the article was received, and to this day I get a lot of people writing to me about the article. Unfortunately, recently the article...

Several months ago I updated my "Time Travel with Windows Media Center" article to be based on Windows Vista rather than on Windows XP. It's now online! If you're interested in writing background add-ins for Media Center, check it out at http://msdn2...

I've been using WebGuide with Media Center since the initial version, and Doug Berrett has always done a terrific job with it. But with the newest version, WebGuide 4, he's completely outdone himself. It's brilliant. Works great with Vista, has a terrific...

Back in early 2005, I wrote an article for MSDN on implementing add-ins for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 . As part of that article, I implemented an add-in that made it easy to jump around in a recorded TV show, video, or music file using the...

I'm enamored with the movie capabilities of my Canon Digital Elph. While I love taking pictures, sometimes I don't just want stills from an event, but would prefer to capture the whole thing in the form of a movie. As a result, I take short movies with...

Ian was nice enough to have me on the show this week. Check it out: http://mediacenter.thepodcastnetwork.com/2006/03/09/the-media-center-show-48-stephen-toub-msdn/ 00:50 Coming up this week 01:30 Email - No Apple DVR 02:36 Email - XBOX 360 04:04 Email...

Today, the Media Center team released Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (you may have heard of the update referred to previously as "Emerald"). Update Rollup 2 includes a plethora of modifications to improve the stability, reliability...

Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 was released today! Get it while it's hot. In addition, for all you developers out there, a new SDK was released and can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId...

Charlie Owen from the Media Center team is raffling off a bunch of prizes (Visual Studio 2005, Windows XP, Office 2003) in exchange for donations to American Red Cross Hurricane Relief: http://blog.retrosight.com/PermaLink,guid,615c3873-ec2c-4869-9d8a...

Update (10/14/2005): MediaState.dll in the new SDK released today is signed. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1D836C29-ABD5-4FDD-90C5-5C5ABAE97DB4&displaylang=en . The Media State Aggregation Service...

I finished the code for this project months and months ago, and I had every intention of writing a full MSDN article describing the ins and outs of what I’d accomplished, but time seems to have gotten away from me. Rather than let the code languish any...

I was asked earlier this week if I knew of any tools that would let one easily edit the metadata associated with a DVR-MS file. Specifically, the person wanted to edit the title and description of a recorded show. There may very well be such a tool out...

One of the features I've wanted for a while now in Media Center is the ability to easily jump around within media. I have a bunch of family home videos on my machine, and it can be frustrating to navigate to particular moments that I want to show to family...

I've received some very nice feedback on my DVR-MS article ... I'm glad people are finding it so informative! I did want to call out one thing about the sample code. Buried in the middle of the article (when discussing WmvConverter) is a sentence:...

My latest article for MSDN Online is now available at Fun with DVR-MS ! A bit on the long side, but in it I delve into working with DirectShow and DVR-MS files (the recorded television files generated by Windows Media Center) from managed code, and I...

I wrote a short article for MSDN which demonstrates how easy it is to write fun Audio DSP plug-ins for Windows Media Player. Karaoke, Windows Media Player Style Have fun.

As I mentioned in my last post , I recently wrote an article for MSDN detailing an approach for synchronizing calendars in Outlook with custom event data sources. I also mentioned that I included a few demo (but usable) CalendarProvider implementations...