Time Travel with Media Center

Media Centre add in

andyBlog — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:37:33 GMT

Media Centre add in

re: Time Travel with Media Center

John — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 14:49:21 GMT

Great article. I was just wondering if the method you used to expose the graph MCE uses for playback could be used the edit the graph to allow the ffdshow filter to be added to the graph?

re: Time Travel with Media Center

Stephen Toub — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 17:42:41 GMT

Theoretically, yes. Should you, well, probably not ;)

It's one thing to look at the graph, but changing it might put it into a state that MCE doesn't expect, which could very well cause ehshell to crash.

That said, try it out and see what happens. My only warning would be that anything you do here would obviously be unsupported.

re: Time Travel with Media Center

vern — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:18:18 GMT

Is there a place to download the actual add-in, without going through compiling the source?

re: Time Travel with Media Center

toub — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 21:25:38 GMT

An installer is included along with the source in the download for the article. Just run that installer... if you don't want to tweak the source at all, you don't need to compile anything.

re: Time Travel with Media Center

vern — Sat, 30 Apr 2005 00:10:09 GMT

Thanks!

P.S. Do you know if there is a quick way to add or move a shortcut for an app to the main menu in MCE?

I previously used MCE Workshop or MCE Customizer (can't remember), but don't want to install other software for one purpose.

THANKS AGAIN!

re: Time Travel with Media Center

Yves Bélanger — Tue, 17 May 2005 22:01:04 GMT

It seams that the french version of MCE 2005 is
not supported... :-(

When I try to install it says something like
"Can be installed only on MCE 2005 or newer".

That's what I have...

re: Time Travel with Media Center

toub — Thu, 19 May 2005 03:54:59 GMT

The actual add-in should work fine with any localized version of MCE 2005... the problem you're having seems to be with the installer. The installer uses the RegisterAddIn.dll from the MCE SDK, and the code in that DLL is what's checking to make sure that the version of MCE is 2005. Either there's something screwy with your system or there's something wrong with that DLL. The good news is that you should be able to install the add-in manually without using the installer. You'll need to copy the add-in DLL (PositionChangerAddIn.dll) to a folder on your computer, along with PositionChangerAddInReg.xml file. Use gacutil to install the DLL into the GAC, and then use the MCE RegisterMCEApp.exe tool with the XML file to let MCE know about the add-in. I'd suggest reading the MCE SDK for more information about manually installing add-ins.

Good luck,
Steve

re: Time Travel with MCE - Trap Remote

Michael — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:37:42 GMT

Thanks for a very good article!

What if I would like to trap a remote button wherever the user is in the MCE?

The KeyboardHook as well as the Intercept Window implementation won't trap pressed remote buttons when the user is within a launched HTML application.

Is it possible to trap remote buttons for this situation aswell (from the same background add-in)? If no, could I do it in another way?

re: Time Travel with Media Center

Reinhard Brongers — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:29:06 GMT

Really great article (and the 'fun with DVR-MS' article as well)! And maybe you also know the answer to a burning question: Why is the playrate property not working as advertised in the SDK (and in your article)? I cannot get MCE to pause and continue through my background plugin, and I am not the only one (http://www.ureader.com/message/1437901.aspx) ... I know you're not the helpdesk or anything, but since you are MS related, and you are clearly knowledgable about the subject, maybe you or someone in your network have the answer?
Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
Regards,
Reinhard

re: Time Travel with Media Center

Oliver — Thu, 25 Aug 2005 23:44:40 GMT

I am using your program as a template to develop my add-in which will communicate with my custom USB control. My question is how to navigate the mce menu through WM_KEYDOWN/UP window messages with VK_UP key code embedded.
These key messages were delievered to the MCE window ( checked via spy program ) but has no impact at all. Could you give me any help?

re: Time Travel with Media Center

Ken P — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:37:45 GMT

Your time travel add-in is a great idea! It works great, with one problem (I have MCE 2005 with rollup 2, in case it matters)

When watching a recorded show, I often need to change the Zoom, which is done by hitting Info on the remote, which brings up the menu, then down clicking to the Zoom choice. The add-in intercepts the down click and thinks it is a bookmark click. Any thoughts on how that could be fixed?

re: Time Travel with Media Center

Ken P — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:13:27 GMT

SORRY!!! With further reading, I realized that I can disable the bookmarking. I may even try to configure another button for the bookmarking feature if I get ambitious!! Thanks

Why don't TV shows have meta data?

andy vt's blog — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 17:53:39 GMT

It's a common problem that MCE doesn't reflect the meta data of the currently playing show in the API. ...

re: Time Travel with Media Center

Brad — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 03:28:39 GMT

Stephen, any chance you will be updating this for Vista MCE? Thanks.

re: Time Travel with Media Center

toub — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:30:40 GMT

Hi Brad,

Yes, I do plan to, or to at least investigate what will be necessary to upgrade it appropriately. Hopefully by the new year.

-Stephen

Position Changer Add-In updated for Media Center in Windows Vista

Stephen Toub — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:13:48 GMT

Back in early 2005, I wrote an article for MSDN on implementing add-ins for Windows XP Media Center Edition

Extenders?

Matt — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 21:42:30 GMT

I have installed the rollup2 version of this addin and I love the idea, I really do. I so need this functionality as I'm coming from a ReplayTV network to the MCE world and not being able to jump through shows more reliably is a serious problem

That being said, I have installed this add-in on the media center pc. When I connect with my extender (this case is the 360) I can see mention of the add-in in the "manage more programs" area of settings. That sounds good. Seems like it installed and is available to my extender. Great.

I then go play a "video" (mpg). While it's playing I press the right arrow key (nothing pops up) and then 500 and wait. Nothing happens. Okay, right arrow/500/left arrow... nothing.

I've never seen the plugin work, so I'm not certain of what interface I should be experiencing, but totally nothing seems to be happening. What am I missing?

I can't test is on the PC as I remote desktop to manage that server and I can't play videos over RD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.!

Where is the .msi installer??

Zeev — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:14:17 GMT

Seems like the .msi installer has disappeared, only the source code is in the zip. Where can I get the msi for Visa??

re: Time Travel with Media Center

Sash — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:27:15 GMT

I am trying to figure that out as well. Earlier I managed to get the contents of the zip file but did not know how to initiate the function. I am using a non microsoft remote. Imon remote from www.soundgraph.com is what I use. the imon remote has two fast forward controls.

http://www.soundgraph.com/Eng_/Products/imon21.aspx?topMenu=2&subMenu=1&leftMenu=21

The RR FF on one top does nothing with avi files

The bottom one skip the microsoft default 29sec and rw 7 secs which I would like to keep. the buttons on top is what I would like to assign the function for your addin. So if I need to jump within a file to a certain location use top RR FF buttons. If I need quick skips use the bottom RR FF buttons.

thanks

re: Time Travel with Media Center

toub — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:46:06 GMT

The new version of the article is at: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb643809.aspx

re: Time Travel with Media Center

Gis — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:29:17 GMT

Sorry, but the code nor the installer are to be found somewhere. Such a basic function in MCE is really a big need and there's not even a decent installer.

I'm loosing my time here around to find just where it is !

Really, do I have to write the code with copy and paste from the article ???

A "gone out of patience" mce user

re: Time Travel with Media Center

toub — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:35:57 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2007/01/03/position-changer-add-in-updated-for-windows-vista.aspx

re: Time Travel with Media Center

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