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The Media Center Show #33 - Michael Creasy

The Media Center Show #33 (MP3 - 28.6MB - 1 hour 06mins 22secs)
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On this weeks show I have Michael Creasy, developer and tester at Microsoft talking about Media Center development and an answering your questions.
I also have news on the Media Center Awards, the vote page is up so get voting

Coming up next week, Microsoft on the XBOX 360 Extender functions!

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I have the Media Center news with Orb and I read out email sent in to the show

Send your questions and feedback to isdixon@gmail.com (feel free to send your questions in mp3)
or you can send your questions and comments in to the show Skype Line “MediaCenterShow

The forums are at Iandixon.co.uk/forums

Show Times:

00:00 Show Ident
00:30 Coming up this week
01:15 Email from Ian Howard
01:57 Email from Brain Frost (link)
03:22 Email Can you control MCE from a laptop
04:23 Email about IPTV
07:36 The Media Center Show News
07:49 MSN Virtual Earth Update
08:50 Hosted HTML developer info
09:47 Setting the time for guide download
09:58 Cablecard comes to Media Center
11:15 Reaction to last weeks show, Charlie Owen’s blog,Chris Lanier’s blog, eHomeUpgrade
12:39 Questions for Matt Goyer about DVD’s
13:26 mceBackup Beta
14:12 Media Center Show Awards, vote now!
15:30 The Grand Prix Show
16:00 Welcome to the show
16:14 Michael’s role
17:52 Microsoft Testing procedure
19:52 Testing Media Center
23:18 Michael’s blog
24:25 The .NET Show on Media Center
26:10 The most frequent questions to Michael
27:45 Common questions
28:24 Question from Casey - Media State Service
31:48 FrontView for Media Center
32:53 Question on uP&P
34:44 What is uP&P (Windows Media Connect)
37:11 Question on Themes
38:54 Question on EPG data
40:22 Extender development question
41:17 XBOX 360 Extender
42:04 Click to Record
45:07 The Green Button Forums Question
45:27 Types of development
51:35 MCL files verses Regapp.exe
54:04 Development Environment
56:00 Background addin application
57:04 Question on Audio
58:40 DVB-T in the UK
1:00:21 Thanks to Michael
1:01:25 Next week XBOX 360!
Music by Ian Dixon

One Response to “The Media Center Show #33 - Michael Creasy”

  1. casey chesnut Says:

    Hello Ian, i just now got to listen to this show. Thanks for asking my question, but i actually already got a better answer from Stephen Toub here :
    http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2005/09/20/471787.aspx

    also, the SDK for Media Center Update Rollup 2 has the MediaState dll signed, so it doesn’t have any problems at all

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