Cable Labs is really putting the screws on OEM users, who like to home-brew their media center PC on the cheap. To view and record HDTV content on a new Vista MCE PC, the following is a list of required components (thanks Chris Lanier):
1) Vista Home Premium or Ultimate2) HDCP Video Card3) Special BIOS w/ OCUR bit [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Windows Media’
Cable Labs Certified Media Center – Requirements
Posted in Everything, Gadgets and Tech, tagged Windows Media, Windows Vista on January 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Windows Media Stream CSModule
Posted in Applications, Everything, Software Development, tagged Community Server, Video Rendering, Windows Media on October 24, 2006 | 5 Comments »
I wrote my first Community Server module to display Windows Media Streams inside blog posts (bin and src download attached to this post). You can do something similar with the YouTube plugin that Scott W wrote, but I wanted to try my hand at writing a CS plug-in and thought this would be a cool [...]
Embedding Windows Media and Quicktime into ASP.NET pages
Posted in Everything, Software Development, tagged ASP.NET, Web Development, Windows Media on February 25, 2006 | 14 Comments »
I know there are numerous web sites and blogs about this subject. Since I had to write some code for “Fred” to render on-line video, and embedding video in web pages can be somewhat fiddly to get right, I figured I’d blog the C# code for my future reference. If hosting on-line video in your [...]
Ratings Powertoy for WMP9/10
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Windows Media on November 4, 2004 | 4 Comments »
So, you’ve spent a lot of effort adding ratings to the media files in your media library in Windows Media Player. You later decide to move all your content to another workstation/server and realize that all the ratings are lost in the transition.
WMP Ratings are stored in a database stashed away in your Windows profile. [...]
eMusic Tag Editor
Posted in Applications, Everything, tagged Windows Media on October 21, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
eMusic Tag Editor is really cool! This application provides editing of ID3 and WMA tag info in bulk.
I was looking for a tag editor for editing tag info for WMA files (since Media encoding did not copy over the ID3 info when I converted from my MP3). eMusic Tag Editor enabled me to add tag [...]
