Develop apps for your Living Room using the Media Center SDK casey chesnut brains-N-brawn.com Madison.NET October 2007
Source Hosted HTML and MCML - brawn.com/artifacts/ugMceDev.ziphttp:// brawn.com/artifacts/ugMceDev.zip Background MCML – brawn.com/mceSapi/ brawn.com/mceSapi/ Guide data – brawn.com/umpcFrame/ (GuideSimple) brawn.com/umpcFrame/ XBAP – brawn.com/mceZipPicWpf/ brawn.com/mceZipPicWpf/
brains-N-brawn.com Pervasive Computing –Tablet PC (MVP 03) –Compact Framework (MVP 04) –Advanced Web Services (MVP 05) –Media Center (MVP 06) –Speech / Office Communication Server (MVP 07) –Location Based Services –Artificial Intelligence –3D –Image Processing –Augmented Reality
Outline Introduction to MCE Hosted HTML Background App XBAP MCML Other APIs
Intro MCE Pictures, Music, Video, Radio, TV, Internet TV, DVD Library Program Library Online Spotlight DEMO
Remote Control 10 feet away = large fonts Simplify UI 6 preferred buttons Text input is hard Keyboard commands
Extenders Multiple extenders to 1 MCE PC Remoted UI Media streamed separately Security limitations No DVD Library Codec support UPnP support is Media Player NOT MCE DEMO
Getting Started Vista Home Premium or Vista Ultimate Visual Studio 2005 / Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Media Center SDK 5.2 (discuss.)mediaCenterSandbox.com –microsoft.public.windows.developer.mediacen ter theGreenButton.com
Hosted HTML MCE 2005 and MCE Vista Remoted to extender (~5 fps) C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Media Center\v5.0\Samples\Hosted HTML Samples Scriptable object model Can be hosted remotely (or locally with Cassini) ActiveX (86/64), Flash … Silverlight MCE does not have an open web browser built- in DEMO
Examples WebGuide MceWeather MceBrowser
Background Add-In MCE 2005 and MCE Vista Only UI is Dialog boxes Run once or keep running ingABackgroundApplicationFromTheTemp late.aspxhttp://blog.mediacentersandbox.com/Creat ingABackgroundApplicationFromTheTemp late.aspx DEMO
Examples OneVoice Conversion tools /mceXInput /umpcFrame
Managed Object Model Navigation PlayMedia TV Recording(s) DVD Changer Parental Controls MediaMetadata Limited EPG … DEMO
XBAP UI MCE Vista VS 2005 Project Template Remoted to extender (~5 fps) Partial trust over the web, or Full trust locally Lots of tools Large community Haven’t been able to debug since VS 2005 SP1 DEMO
MCML UI MCE Vista Custom markup language for MCE Native on extender (~30 fps) Markup only over the web or Markup and code locally What MCE is built with (pre XAML) Limited tool support Small community Debug by attaching to process (registry) DEMO
Other App Models CD DVD Burning Media State Aggregation Service ListMaker ClickToRecord Launch external apps DirectShow
Gotchas Debugging UAC Extender model Cannot open a window handle Long running operations DirectXExclusive Plugins running in their own process
Future CableCards rolling out now Internet TV last week V2 extenders this holiday (DivX/XviD) V2 Zunes Xbox 360 fall update Windows Home Server integration? Live Anywhere on PCs? Vista MCE will get a refresh next year MediaRoom (ITV) is coming
Questions