The Media Center Sandbox

Is there a way to show a marquee text or a banner on top of the video? I have to show some adds during the broadcast at regular intervals. In addition to this I may have to use another plugins as well.

Where can I find some MCML examples to to this? Also is it possible to use another plugins in MCML instead of default video plugin?

Thank you for your support.

You can only show text over a video where the video is shown in a tag inside your code. Then you do it just like a normal MCML text item.

There is a marquee example in the MCML sampler.

Cheers,
Andrew

Do you have some example codes about showing a text over a video? Also can I show a graphic item over a video?

My last question is, how can I use another plugins? I saw some examples and thare are lots of interesting plugins. But I dont know how to use them..

Thank yıu andrew..

Have a look at "View Items - Video" for MCML showing a video beneath a graphic. The example has a small video, but you can as easily make it cover the screen.

You can instead set the background mode for your add-in so that it shows the video as the background (similar in style to the way the guide or the start menu works).

Cheers,
Andrew

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My last question is, how can I use another plugins? I saw some examples and thare are lots of interesting plugins. But I dont know how to use them..

Not sure what you mean by this...

Cheers,
Andrew

For example I found this link:

http://www.neowin.net/news/media-control-plugin-for-vista-media-center-04

I am not sure this is what I need. During the live stream, I mean broadcast, some banners is gonna show over the video or marquee texts just for a while.

What am I suppose to do?

Generally speaking, you can't put anything over video where your program isn't running. If you make your program using a video background then you will see what you see on Media Control. If you then exit your program, the stream will continue but you won't have your marquee over the video.

Cheers,
Andrew

Just I couldn't figure out how to set a video as background.. Can you please show me some examples? I searched in Google but I couldn't find an example..

Search for "BackgroundModes" in the Media Center SDK documentation.

Cheers,
Andrew