February 2006 - Posts

Tripod sings about romantic love
24 February 06 04:01 PM | Peter Rosser | 1 Comments   

I saw this the other day... definitely worth a viewing. WARNING: If you have a girlfriend/wife/S.O. and you game a lot, you might want to put on headphones or suffer facial contortions and rolling eyes. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1329362959167995041&q=tripod Read More...

Filed under: Found

Using exported DLL functions
22 February 06 02:11 PM | Peter Rosser | 0 Comments   

Now and then it's necessary to use "private" or "internal-only" functions in DLLs that you did not write, don't have the source for, and/or cannot get public interfaces for. I recently had to do this again for a utility application, so I thought it would Read More...

Filed under: Coding, Windows

Captioning Support Sucks
19 February 06 01:42 AM | Peter Rosser | 6 Comments   

Looking back at the bugs we've fixed over the last several months, we certainly have had a good share of captioning issues, especially with regards to the size of the codebase compared to the "video" code. Surprisingly, we don't hear from users a ton when captions don't work properly, but maybe that's because a minority of the users actually use them in the first place. I'm not usually so negative, but I'm just annoyed at captioning today. The following is a poorly thought-out rant on the subject. ... Read More...

Filed under: Musing

DVB Guide issues - "cannot schedule recoding because guide data cannot be accessed"
15 February 06 11:27 PM | Peter Rosser | 9 Comments   

We have been getting reports about Guide problems from DVB users across Europe and the world, hopefully in time for the next Rollup release (external date not yet announced, but should be late Q1 to early Q2). The problem typically manifests itself when Read More...

Filed under: Media Center, Tools

A Brief History of ATSC in Media Center
03 February 06 12:09 AM | Peter Rosser | 26 Comments   

In the beginning there was NTSC in Freestyle (Media Center 2002), and it was good. Media Center supported the #1 market and proved that computers could do a great job recording television, pausing Live TV, and organizing recordings. With support for one Read More...

Filed under: Media Center, Musing

DISH Network & ATSC channels
01 February 06 01:14 AM | Peter Rosser | 5 Comments   

I have been working on a fix for the ATSC channel number assignment issue currently impacting Rollup 2 users. The scenario is that if you have any channels in the 9000s (like DISH Network) and you have ATSC channels, they will get assigned numbers in Read More...