The Media Center Sandbox

I was trying to log a paid support ticket, Im with bizspark so I have an msdn number but no free incidents, I do not have a TAM. After half an hour on the phone explaining the issue, the guy said ''not supported'' I said: ''can I talk to your boss'' and that is where it is at now. Needless to say I felt pretty crappy after that.

I just spent half an hour on the phone with some person trying to log a ticket for: http://community.mediabrowser.tv/permalinks/523/stopping-a-dvd-doesn-t-return-to-previous-screen According to this person Microsoft do not offer support for the Media Center SDK. Is this the case? Is there any way to officially log bugs with SDK?

No luck, this still seems to happen to my users. Any word from MS about a fix or at least some better ways to work around, the remoting channel goes bust and there is no way re-establish it. Perhaps on play I should trigger starting up a new plugin instance that will have a fresh mediaexperience, seems horrid though This has been the case ever

Im thinking it must be something we did that aggravated the situation. I removed some code that triggered ui updates between the two operations and stuff seems a bit more stable.

In our plugin we use the PlayMedia api to play Videos AddInHost.Current.MediaCenterEnvironment.PlayMedia(Microsoft.MediaCenter.MediaType.Video, path, false) In Vista, consistently, after this call we have a media experience ready for us in: AddInHost.Current.MediaCenterEnvironment.MediaExperience However in Window 7 stuff is a bit more erratic

After a DVD reaches the end in Windows 7, I seem to be getting a blank blue screen. Would anybody know where we went wrong? Is there any special parameter I need to send to PlayMedia to tell it not to display a blue screen with no options after playing a DVD? We can recover by clicking the back button, but it seems rather annoying. The issue ...

David, It has been months since this was first reported, workarounds are starting to surface and they are completely evil: http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/p/72503/377553.aspx#377553 I can not sell a piece of software that has a broken stop button. Any news on when you will be releasing a fix to the public?

@Eddy, I deduced the implementation from the behaviour I observed, which means that I am likely to be wrong. If you really wanted to dig in to this I would recommend giving .net memory profiler a shot Cheers Sam

You could also just post this stuff on StackOverflow it has lots of wiki like features and the mediacenter tag is pretty barren at the moment Disadvantage is that its not super organized

Andy, I can repro this by playing bear or butterfly in microsofts own video library. Play bear. Press stop - video pauses (frame freezes) there is no OSD press play - video plays press stop - the screen pops up with all the stop options (delete etc.) The problem with braking stop is that now people are using the green button to exit videos ...