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Title: Some MC TV Questions
Post by: babgvant on October 14, 2011, 12:25:57 pm: 1: What does JTV net versus TS?

2: Does the recording engine trigger Away Mode?

3: Does the recording engine support waking the PC? If so, is the time before a recording starts configurable?

Thanks
Title: Re: Some MC TV Questions
Post by: JimH on October 14, 2011, 12:31:16 pm: Recording will wake the PC and put it back to sleep when finished.

~~What's Away Mode?~~

Away Mode (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463208.aspx) at microsoft.com.
Title: Re: Some MC TV Questions
Post by: babgvant on October 14, 2011, 12:41:45 pm: Quote from: JimH on October 14, 2011, 12:31:16 pm
Recording will wake the PC and put it back to sleep when finished.

Do you mean MC lets the PC idle back to sleep or it requests standby?

Quote from: JimH on October 14, 2011, 12:31:16 pm
What's Away Mode?

It's a state where if the user requests standby the PC only disables features that make it appear awake and doesn't actually enter standby. The use case is to not terminate recording when the user presses the sleep button (could be part of an activity shutdown macro on the remote).

Start recording:

SetThreadExecutionState (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa373208%28v=vs.85%29.aspx)(EXECUTION_STATE.ES_AWAYMODE_REQUIRED | EXECUTION_STATE.ES_CONTINUOUS);

Done recording:

SetThreadExecutionState(EXECUTION_STATE.ES_CONTINUOUS)
Title: Re: Some MC TV Questions
Post by: JimH on October 14, 2011, 12:44:10 pm: Quote from: babgvant on October 14, 2011, 12:41:45 pm
Do you mean MC lets the PC idle back to sleep or it requests standby?
I believe it returns to the mode it was in prior to recording. Mine comes out of sleep and goes back to sleep.
Title: Re: Some MC TV Questions
Post by: JustinChase on October 14, 2011, 10:07:38 pm: Since you're both here ;)

Any chance of MC using the DTBaddin so I can skip commercials automatically?
Title: Re: Some MC TV Questions
Post by: babgvant on October 15, 2011, 05:27:55 am: Quote from: JustinChase on October 14, 2011, 10:07:38 pm
Any chance of MC using the DTBaddin so I can skip commercials automatically?

The DTBAddin is specific to Windows Media Center, MC uses a very different plugin system.
Title: Re: Some MC TV Questions
Post by: JustinChase on October 15, 2011, 03:10:59 pm: I assumed so, but the question was meant to be more theoretical in nature.

I meant, is is possible to get DTBaddin and/or MC tweaked to get them to be compatible? I just figured that since the developer of that great addin was already talking to the owner of my preferred software about TV formats, maybe I could nudge them to find a way to get commercial skipping added to MC together :D