Windows Media Center (MCE) - Beta

[ruggie2]

Forcing MCE to focus has fixed the Netflix issue but not the PowerDVD issue. By adding 'FindWindow' and 'Bring to front' I can get Netflix to work fine. However absolutely no Firefly commands or keyboard commands do anything while a movie is playing with PowerDVD 9 within WMC7. Only the cheap media center remote works. Is there a way to have EG send the same command as the MCE remote? ShowKey shows me this when I hit play/pause:

<play_pause>Notification(Key, play_pause, 3)</play_pause>

There's got to be a way to have EG send the command. Can I use my USB-UIRT to learn the command? All I really need is play, pause, menu, and exit. This is driving me nuts.

[evlo]

There is no easy way to control WMC when i don't have focus. I think someone was making plugin for it, but i never saw it realeased. Any WMC can't play movie fluently witouth having focus.

[baruchno]

I would like to join to the request to create a plugin for Windows7 WMC

I tried the plugin suggested in this thread but unfortunately it works only when WMC is in focus...

please post a replay if you have any new info

Tx

[Livin]

I would like to join to the request to create a plugin for Windows7 WMC

I tried the plugin suggested in this thread but unfortunately it works only when WMC is in focus...

please post a replay if you have any new info

Tx

seriously? did you even bother to read this thread... no one knows a way to get this accomplished. I'm sure it could be done but would require coding a plugin for MCE specifically. If you can find a programmer with MCE experience petition him for it.

[BinaryTB]

Looks like the Netflix plugin runs within an Internet Explorer Silverlight window, it's a different executable, thus MCE doesn't work on it. The Silverlight executable is "ehexthost.exe" and MCE looks for another one.

[BinaryTB]

Well everything works perfectly now, Netflix and all. Just went through all the MCE items and replaced them with their keyboard equivalents, set up Task Create/Switch Event to only activate that folder if eshell is activated.

Shame I couldn't use the MCE plugin, it does the exact same thing I did (I just copied the keyboard shortcuts in the py file, less Googling for me), except less work for me, but fails on Netflix.

I've only tested it for 5 minutes, here's hoping I don't run into any active Window issues.

[YG78]

Hello

I think there is a fonctionnaly that will be helpfull for eventghost: the capability to catch the status of the recorder (0, 1, 2... record in progress) but i don't know how to do this in python

Everybody can help me ?

Regards

[stottle]

I think there is a fonctionnaly that will be helpfull for eventghost: the capability to catch the status of the recorder (0, 1, 2... record in progress) but i don't know how to do this in python

Do you know how to do this in a language other than python? It isn't hard if you can get the information out of WMC, but I would guess getting the info from WMC isn't easy.

Brett

[YG78]

Hello

I do'nt know how to do that ???
I used Ledsdriver from http://slicksolutions.eu/ledsdriver.shtml ; wich do it very good. I asked for information but no answer ...

Regards

[YG78]

I had ans answer: we need to use Media State Aggregation Service for that.

here the topic: http://www.degroeneknop.nl/forum/index. ... 949.0.html

I downloaded the Media Center SDK http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/d ... laylang=en


An now i try to understand ...

[Livin]

Are you planning to write a plugin to send info from W7MC to EG? I'd be up for testing it for you... I use W7MC to watch TV.

[kingtd]

http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtop ... 5484#p5484

Check this thread before you go too far down the line of creating a new plugin. This is what I use to control and get info from my 7MC instance. It uses MSAS which is natively buggy and tends to just stop responding. Microsoft cares very little about 7MC, so no matter what it will be less than reliable until it gets some love.

~K

[stottle]

Wow, I didn't even see that plugin. I wrote a basic 7MC plugin for my fork, but it is one-way, sending commands to 7MC. I'll have to take a look at this and see about the sink functionality as well as the other media functions.

Thanks!
Brett

[itauditor]

I have installed the latest dl for this plugin. Can't seem to get it to work for some reason. Other plugins work okay and my event log shows the MCE commands - they fail to make Win7 MC respond appropriately.

Any clues to what I'm doing wrong?

My progress was tracked in this thread - the last entry shows what I am seeing...

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3268

thanks

[Livin]

I've been using it for a long time and it is working fine for me on WMC7.

Ensure that WMC has focus on your PC when you use it. It can looks like it has focus even when it does now - especially with multi display situations.