16.7ms in the life
A sample in the life of a Media Center developer
So, the last several months have been fairly busy, what with Vista shipping (woohoo!), vacations,...
Date: 03/21/2007
Where's Peter?
... working, working, working. That, in short, is why there have been no updates in so long. Between...
Date: 06/01/2006
Media Center Technical Discussion 1: Tuners and TuningSpaces
The Media Center TV experience driven by a flexible, multi-standard engine that works with any...
Date: 04/03/2006
Media Center Technical Discussion Series
One of the more popular subjects for users who email me is how to get Media Center to do something...
Date: 04/03/2006
VoodooPC's 8TB Media Center PC
From Engadget: When we heard that VoodooPC was planning a media PC with 16 drive bays and a maximum...
Date: 03/02/2006
Tripod sings about romantic love
I saw this the other day... definitely worth a viewing. WARNING: If you have a girlfriend/wife/S.O....
Date: 02/24/2006
Using exported DLL functions
Now and then it's necessary to use "private" or "internal-only" functions in DLLs that you did not...
Date: 02/22/2006
DVB Guide issues - "cannot schedule recoding because guide data cannot be accessed"
We have been getting reports about Guide problems from DVB users across Europe and the world,...
Date: 02/16/2006
A Brief History of ATSC in Media Center
In the beginning there was NTSC in Freestyle (Media Center 2002), and it was good. Media Center...
Date: 02/03/2006
DISH Network & ATSC channels
I have been working on a fix for the ATSC channel number assignment issue currently impacting Rollup...
Date: 02/01/2006
Fix coming for ATSC minor channels guide bug
If you use ATSC with Media Center, and have mapped minor channels to listings, you probably noticed...
Date: 01/30/2006
Fix for ATSC after uninstalling Rollup 2
In some cases you may find that ATSC (HDTV) no longer works after uninstalling Media Center Rollup 2...
Date: 01/24/2006
DVB Radio "No TV Signal" Workaround
I am currently investigating a fix for two DVB Radio issues identified a workaround for those...
Date: 01/22/2006
Classy & Easy Thank You Notes
If you are truly lazy, but still want to show your gratitude, you can always do what I do. Instead...
Date: 01/09/2006
Silly Little Contest Results
I'd like to thank all of you who submitted entries--even the person who felt it necessary to email...
Date: 01/09/2006
16.7ms = free software (a silly contest)
Sometimes being obtuse is it's own reward, but this time there's something in it for you if you know...
Date: 01/05/2006
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year! It was a nice month, but the break is over and I've returned back to work. Christmas...
Date: 01/04/2006
The holidays and MceRepair
As time permits, I've been working on the next version of MceRepair, but with the real world taking...
Date: 11/21/2005
Toshiba Tecra 3 image restore dialog
Precious... (sorry for the quality, it's from my camera phone) UPDATE: "a while" == 1.5 hours...
Date: 11/02/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Shipping on my Birthday
You know I'm a geek when something like that gives me even a little bit of a thrill. November 7th......
Date: 11/01/2005
Tell us about your Rollup 2 (and KB908250) problems
Are you an MCE user experiencing problems since you installed Rollup 2 and/or KB908250? I want to...
Date: 10/28/2005
IEEE 1394 vs. UDCP
I have been exchanging a couple of emails with Ray Maker, a fellow 'Softie, regarding whether IEEE...
Date: 10/27/2005
Recording over 1394 (Firewire) in Media Center
There has been some recent effort to pry open the 1394 interface in various STBs (set-top boxes),...
Date: 10/26/2005
The procedure entry point GetRequestedRuntimeVersion could not be located in the dynamic link library mscoree.dll
Symptoms Aaron Stebner blogged this a few days ago, but some folks are still running into it, so...
Date: 10/25/2005
MceRepair 0.2
I've posted an update to MceRepair at https://www.pegasi.com/MceRepair_0.2.zip, which adds additional...
Date: 10/22/2005
DRM Business Rules in Rollup 2
To clarify the somewhat vague statement I made about "business rules" for DRM changing in Emerald...
Date: 10/21/2005
Anonymous comments enabled
I guess no matter how many hours I stare at a monitor every day, in some things I'm still a noob. I...
Date: 10/21/2005
Tool to set your EPG download time
After all that about QWORDs in the registry from managed code, I went ahead and just finished a...
Date: 10/21/2005
Getting a QWORD from the registry using C# and P/Invoke
From time to time you need to use really, really big numbers, like when describing, say, the time of...
Date: 10/21/2005
DRM in MCE Rollup 2
I was posting to TheGreenButton.com and thought I'd save myself typing the same thing again, since...
Date: 10/20/2005
PC Video Outputs
I am seeing a pattern of confusion regarding S-Video and video resolutions with a lot of users in...
Date: 10/20/2005
MceRepair 0.1 (alpha)
Having gotten a little fed up with manually re-registering MCE files when MedCtrRO.exe fails, I have...
Date: 10/20/2005