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Media Center Development: What topic(s) shall I blog about next?

I'm interested to know what topics you might like for me to cover here regarding developing for Windows XP Media Center Edition in the coming weeks.  If you read this blog and want to see a particular topic covered, please provide feedback.

Posted: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:21 PM by charlieo
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Henry said:

How bout telling us a way how to skin the MCE?
# November 17, 2004 12:19 AM

Niels said:

Hi!

An idea: In a number of countries (like Denmark...) we don't have tv-guides in MCE2005. So we are forced to rely on the build-in screen to start recordings. And its not very good (have to know channel number and so forth).
So beeing a nerd, i want to make my own. But how do you go about doing that? The Television-class with a hosted html-application?
Or how about making a webservice, that interfaces with MCE (for recordings and stuf), so that i can create a Compact Framework-app, that can start recordings...

Just a few ideas!
Niels
# November 17, 2004 2:41 AM

Dave Neigler said:

I'd like to see some samples using addins and html apps to communicate with web services (WSE2) hosted via http.sys (instantiated in a windows service). Since Media Center already runs on SP2, this seems like a viable model. Remoting samples could also be included as another mode of cross-domain communications.

Also, what are the 1.0 framework dependencies for MCE2005 addins, and can this architecture offset them by moving the logic into the web service?
# November 17, 2004 6:38 AM

Marco said:

For example. How can we extend existing programs? sample: extend the "My Pictures" to support an external source (for example Photoshop Album (is using an Access database).

Thanks
Marco
# November 17, 2004 12:56 PM

Steve Hurcombe said:

Hi,
Another request, could you explain the limitations of what can be done. For example can you write an app to record programmes from the planner?

Best regards
Steve
# November 17, 2004 1:02 PM

James Young said:

I would like to know more about integration with the broadcast signal. For example is it possible to watch CNN and have a RSS feed reader ticker (say using Macromedia Flash) alpha'd on top of the broadcast. On ticker click, it would spawn a web page.
# November 17, 2004 1:32 PM

Michael Kaply said:

I just want to know where to start.
# December 3, 2004 9:23 AM

cmn said:

hmm...
what about timeshift? how to play with the seekBar component?
or a reference of the registry entries would be very nice.
# December 10, 2004 4:04 AM

Jon Heupel said:

Hi, I was poking around your blog wondering if windows media center was an appropriate platform for ripping my dvd collection and attempting to build an app that acts like a menu. With all my dvd tv shows (an movies) I would like to treat my dvd collection like my cd collection and rip them all to a hard drive and toss then toss them in a box in a closet somewhere.
# December 10, 2004 6:32 AM

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