Api?
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possible utils.
The other functionality I want is a tool which gets listed in the "new media inserted" window that pops up when I plug my JVC Everrio (HDD based) camcorder. The I can select it and it will find and enumerate a list of video files (God knows why JVC decided to name them .MOD files) for optional batch processing. It's all well and good them advertising that the camera records stuff in DVD format, but then no DVD authoring tool (the one they bundled, included) can actually use the format without a full re-comrpess - arrrgh. VRD to the rescue.
Another tool, if I had the time, I would try to find a way to pull streams directly off the topfield and run them through VRD without having the laborious space wasting task of copying the .rec files to the PC first. But I fear this will be impossible without getting into the internals of VRD. It also assumes that I can easily pull streams from the topfield. So maybe this project will never be attempted by me.
Well I don't mean to be rude but I think the batch interface sucks pretty bad. As it stands, I don't really need the API to build another batching interface, I can simply duplicate the command-line calls that the current batch tool logs. However it's always nice to know what function calls are available.Harry said:
The other functionality I want is a tool which gets listed in the "new media inserted" window that pops up when I plug my JVC Everrio (HDD based) camcorder. The I can select it and it will find and enumerate a list of video files (God knows why JVC decided to name them .MOD files) for optional batch processing. It's all well and good them advertising that the camera records stuff in DVD format, but then no DVD authoring tool (the one they bundled, included) can actually use the format without a full re-comrpess - arrrgh. VRD to the rescue.
Another tool, if I had the time, I would try to find a way to pull streams directly off the topfield and run them through VRD without having the laborious space wasting task of copying the .rec files to the PC first. But I fear this will be impossible without getting into the internals of VRD. It also assumes that I can easily pull streams from the topfield. So maybe this project will never be attempted by me.
media centre
I have never used media centre. I have a chipped xbox running xbox media centre (XBMC) and it is better than any media program I have ever witnessed (excellent UI). It's only limitation is that being xbox, it has no access to plugin hardware that can record stuff (it records from shoutcast however). Have you seen "Media Portal"? I think it's based on the older XBMC, but for the PC. The older XBMC is more like the current MS WMC.
Anyway, I have a little experience using the windows media encoder api. I work at the university of canberra and I have written a windows service in C# which automates lecture recordings from theatres around the campus which are scheduled in an RDBMS. All the files are encoded using the freely available windows media API.
That is the sum total of my C# experience. I am a PHP programmer by trade. I am yet to find out what a TBL file is
I might have a crack at coding sometime in the next few weeks. I will try to access VRD through COM from C# and I will let you know how I go.
I have never used media centre. I have a chipped xbox running xbox media centre (XBMC) and it is better than any media program I have ever witnessed (excellent UI). It's only limitation is that being xbox, it has no access to plugin hardware that can record stuff (it records from shoutcast however). Have you seen "Media Portal"? I think it's based on the older XBMC, but for the PC. The older XBMC is more like the current MS WMC.
Anyway, I have a little experience using the windows media encoder api. I work at the university of canberra and I have written a windows service in C# which automates lecture recordings from theatres around the campus which are scheduled in an RDBMS. All the files are encoded using the freely available windows media API.
That is the sum total of my C# experience. I am a PHP programmer by trade. I am yet to find out what a TBL file is
I might have a crack at coding sometime in the next few weeks. I will try to access VRD through COM from C# and I will let you know how I go.
cool
Sounds great! I had a chipped xbox as well running xbmc as my dashboard. It would play everything I could ever throw at it. I would run a redo scan for commerical removal then compress using Nero Recode for mp4 format. Now I have an xbox 360 and am converting all my video files from mp4-->wmv9 using WinAVI Video Converter as described in these forums. I also have very little C# programming experience, but would like to learn it. I am a C/C++ programmer for embedded systems and Unix OS by trade and work for a local university as a teaching assistant for some programming courses here. The Windows Media Center is very nice software, I tried MediaPortal a while back and was not impressed. The program would crash repeatedly and would not do what I wanted. I did however try the new Nero 7 which has a "Media Center" type of look to it.
Sounds great! I had a chipped xbox as well running xbmc as my dashboard. It would play everything I could ever throw at it. I would run a redo scan for commerical removal then compress using Nero Recode for mp4 format. Now I have an xbox 360 and am converting all my video files from mp4-->wmv9 using WinAVI Video Converter as described in these forums. I also have very little C# programming experience, but would like to learn it. I am a C/C++ programmer for embedded systems and Unix OS by trade and work for a local university as a teaching assistant for some programming courses here. The Windows Media Center is very nice software, I tried MediaPortal a while back and was not impressed. The program would crash repeatedly and would not do what I wanted. I did however try the new Nero 7 which has a "Media Center" type of look to it.
I'm running "pimped edition" of XBMC. I also run it as my dashboard since I don't use my xbox for anything else these days. I only play games on it when people come over and want to do so. I havn't seen the latest WMC. Yeah I did download Media Portal once, but couldn't get it to work with my tuner card(s). The interface was old school.
VRD would be good for archiving data from the toppy into mass storage somwhere for replay over the network from XBMC. I was thinking of building a new PC with say 2TB of RAID storage. I have so much content these days, it is difficult to organise whilst spread accross so many individual HDDs.
VRD would be good for archiving data from the toppy into mass storage somwhere for replay over the network from XBMC. I was thinking of building a new PC with say 2TB of RAID storage. I have so much content these days, it is difficult to organise whilst spread accross so many individual HDDs.
Count me in on that guys. I use Visual Basic (and API) to do things like that. I suppose I could...eflickne said:
1. Have a VB background app that checks for (and updates a list of)new "Recorded TV" every 2 hours.
2. Make API calls to VideoRedo to load and commercial scan the new files while saving the results of the edits or maybe even the new video file.
Obviously I'd need some references to the VRD API to do that but it should be really simple to do in Visual Basic. And maybe a API call or two to MCE to identify a currently recording program and filename.
I'll dig into some of the VRD files tonight and see what I can come up with.
Lawrence