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• Understanding Merit to Optimize Playback

  I’m going to assume some familiarity with DirectShow and how it works, but if miss that mark and don’t explain something that isn’t common knowledge please let me know and I’ll dig into it further. There is a ton of really good information about DirectShow... Posted Nov 30 2008, 12:48 PM by babgvant with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: DirectShow

• Scanning unsupported files for commercials

  Say you have a file that isn’t supported by Comskip or ShowAnalyzer that you’d like to automatically scan for commercials. There are a couple of reasons for this; either the codec isn’t supported or the container isn't (or both). Fortunately the approach... Posted Aug 07 2008, 07:20 PM by babgvant with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: DVRMSToolbox, Conversion, DirectShow

• H.264 -> DVR-MS

  Struck me while I was out walking the dog last night that part of bringing DirectTV tuners to WMC is modifing the SBE to support H.264 video. If this is correct, this is great news for everyone looking to archive ATSC MPEG content in a smaller format... Posted Jan 08 2008, 08:31 AM by babgvant with | with no comments Filed under: Conversion, DirectShow

• Update on Streaming TV / SBE Trouble

  It's been a month since I started looking at streaming tv b/w WMC PC's at first I was interested in it conceptually, but the more I dug into it the more it seemed like something that was very realistic given the tools / code available. I ended... Posted Dec 18 2007, 06:58 AM by babgvant with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Vista, DirectShow, Media Broker

• Media Broker - Streaming TV

  Back in February I started thinking about what was the biggest missing piece of an all PC based Media Center solution. I got thinking about this again after a recent post by Charlie Owen about how they could better document Microsoft's approach to... Posted Nov 18 2007, 05:26 PM by babgvant with | with 14 comment(s) Filed under: Media Center, DirectShow

• Creating DVR-MS files

  It's been a long time since I've bored anyone with some programing, but given the dearth of information on use the Stream Buffer Engine (SBE) to create DVR-MS files (especially using managed code) I figured it was time to share; maybe save someone... Posted Nov 09 2007, 10:49 PM by babgvant with | with no comments Filed under: Conversion, Source Code, DirectShow

• WMC does publish the graph

  Somewhere in the progression from beta to RTM (I don't remember exactly when) playback graphs stopped being published to the ROT in Vista. Or at least that's what everyone (myself included) reported. It turns out that WMC never stopped publishing... Posted Nov 09 2007, 07:45 PM by babgvant with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Media Center, Vista, DirectShow