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20 March 07 09:35 PM | Peter Rosser | 3 Comments   
So, the last several months have been fairly busy, what with Vista shipping (woohoo!), vacations, and plannng the next rev. I worked long hours alongside my fellow eHomers, we shipped, and I took off a couple of months to find myself in Mexico and decompress. Read More...
Thoughts on software complexity
02 June 06 09:06 PM | Peter Rosser | 1 Comments   
If you've ever tried to create a software application of any decent size, you have probably realized that what works with small tools more often than not does not scale well to larger sizes. There are whole books written about how to scale up and out, Read More...
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Where's Peter?
01 June 06 04:01 PM | Peter Rosser | 0 Comments   
... working, working, working. That, in short, is why there have been no updates in so long. Between my work schedule, family and renovation project I have not had much time to myself. I have neglected my blog in favor of meatspace; sorry! When things Read More...
Media Center Technical Discussion 1: Tuners and TuningSpaces
03 April 06 08:08 PM | Peter Rosser | 28 Comments   
The Media Center TV experience driven by a flexible, multi-standard engine that works with any compatible tuner (including a good number of analog tuner cards and all BDA digital tuner cards) to create portable recordings viewable on any Windows XP machine. Read More...
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Media Center Technical Discussion Series
03 April 06 11:52 AM | Peter Rosser | 9 Comments   
One of the more popular subjects for users who email me is how to get Media Center to do something that cannot be done (or is hard to do) from the UI. Since I have not been able to talk about my current work much (Windows Vista and unannounced other stuff) Read More...
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VoodooPC's 8TB Media Center PC
02 March 06 02:51 PM | Peter Rosser | 3 Comments   
From Engadget: When we heard that VoodooPC was planning a media PC with 16 drive bays and a maximum capacity of 8 terabytes... [ Read full posting on Engadget ] Sounds pretty cool--maybe I'll get one here to "test" with ^_^. Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
Fix coming for ATSC minor channels guide bug
30 January 06 10:36 AM | Peter Rosser | 13 Comments   
If you use ATSC with Media Center, and have mapped minor channels to listings, you probably noticed that the listings from the .1 channel are duplicated across the other minor channels (if the callsigns are similar enough). This results in a display like Read More...
Fix for ATSC after uninstalling Rollup 2
24 January 06 11:24 AM | Peter Rosser | 2 Comments   
In some cases you may find that ATSC (HDTV) no longer works after uninstalling Media Center Rollup 2 from your computer. The issue is caused by a schema change in the Tuners registry key. Today I identified a workaround to get your ATSC back up and running Read More...
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DVB Radio "No TV Signal" Workaround
22 January 06 08:50 PM | Peter Rosser | 9 Comments   
I am currently investigating a fix for two DVB Radio issues identified a workaround for those affected. If you are getting a "No TV Signal" blue overlay when tuning to a DVB Radio station, particularly a low-bitrate station like BBC World Service, or Read More...
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