Comments on: BeebMC – BBC Radio addin for Windows Media Center

By: Tore

Tore — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:42:34 +0000

Hello
I have tried BeebMC, but I only get an ‘Illegal program’ message when trying to start it. I have the latest Real player and .Net version.
I have been unable to find any references to what is actually the reason for an’Illegal program message’.

Do you have any idea.

Tore

By: dmehers

dmehers — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:59:54 +0000

Hi Mark,

In notepad when you are in the Save dialog, if you change the extension that is shown to be “*.*” instead of “*.txt” then you should see all the files and can then select the xml file to overwrite it.

/Damian

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:15:21 +0000

what program do you use to edit the xml file… i tried notepad and it doesn’t let me save as xml extension
cheers
mark

By: dmehers

dmehers — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:17:03 +0000

Hi Ben,

There are no MCML books that I know of — there is this one online: http://push-a-button.com/products/books/index.php

The Media Center Sandbox website and forums are also good: http://blog.mediacentersandbox.com/

It isn’t possible to display external programs within Media Center — just the Media Center display, and MCML / hosted HTML apps that you develop.

/Damian

By: dmehers

dmehers — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:13:19 +0000

Hi Mark,

Do you mean the Channels.xml file? You’ll need to change its properties to make it writable, and then you can edit it with Notepad.

/Damian

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:43:54 +0000

Hi Damian.
Just watched your 2 webcasts on Media Center development and its the first place that I’ve seen any decent explanations of whats happening.
Where did you learn about MCE development? Any good books you could recommend.
Also, do you know if it is possible to open an external application from within VMC (like a shell command)? I’d like to be able to open an external media player within Media Center. I’d preferably like to host the application within VMC itself but if not just being able to invoke the application to open externally would be better than nothing. Any idea how to do that?
thanks

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:05:54 +0000

hi damian
how do you edit the file

cheers

mark

By: dmehers

dmehers — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:57:31 +0000

Hi Mark,

I did see it — still working on 64 bit support (didn’t work as easily as I’d hoped) — then I’ll get on to looking at it.

Cheers,
/Damian

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:58:10 +0000

hi Damian,
did you see my post above…any comments cheers
Mark

By: dmehers

dmehers — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:56:57 +0000

Hi Syed,

I’d recommend the SDK documentation, the Media Center Sandbox: http://blog.mediacentersandbox.com/ and also perhaps take a look at the introductory videos I created showing how I created the BeebMC application: http://damianblog.com/2008/07/12/screencast-creating-a-simple-media-center-application/

/Damian