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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: DCipher on October 28, 2003, 11:19:18 am

Title: Output plugin?
Post by: DCipher on October 28, 2003, 11:19:18 am

Is there any documentation or SDK for writing output plugins?

Can anyone offer any examples?  I really love MC's interface and want to use it to control other devices around the house.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Jeff

Title: Re:Output plugin?
Post by: xen-uno on October 28, 2003, 11:22:20 am

see http://www.musicex.com/mediacenter/devzone.html

Here's the forum...

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=6 OR http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5

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Title: Re:Output plugin?
Post by: DCipher on October 28, 2003, 12:31:56 pm

Thanks for the links.  I checked those out and never saw anything about writing an output plugin (I do see skins, display, interface, input, dsp).  Maybe it's not possible to do what i want?

Jeff

Title: Re:Output plugin?
Post by: xen-uno on October 28, 2003, 12:40:05 pm

If you actually look inside the *.cpp and *.h files (using NotePad), you will see they are commented well. I have been familiarizing myself with the Input plugin SDK with the eventual goal of writing a FLAC plugin. You really have to be a true programmer to do these. It is not for the faint-of-heart. I'm pretty good with Visual Basic with some C/C++ knowledge (but I learn fast).

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Title: Re:Output plugin?
Post by: DCipher on October 28, 2003, 12:54:26 pm

I will check them out.  Actually, i have 13 years of experience writing C-Code and have spent the last 6 - 7 years doing web development (COM, ASP, etc) and now i'm doing embedded development under linux, so the coding part doesn't concern me so much, i just need to find out how to put the hooks into media center.

Thanks again,
Jeff

Title: Re:Output plugin?
Post by: xen-uno on October 28, 2003, 01:04:38 pm

I'm just hoping that when I do get a handle on writing the FLAC plugin, that I'll be able to compile it with MS VC++ 5.0, which was released in 1997. I think it will, since JRiver probably used 486 or Pentium (1) level optimizations. Matt...any comment?

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Title: Re:Output plugin?
Post by: Matt on October 29, 2003, 09:01:48 am

I'd guess that you could link to VS.NET 2003 libraries with VC 5.0, but I'm not sure.

The Unicode part may be a little stickier with VC 5.0, but I bet if you ask, someone around here will know how to get it going.

Thanks and good luck on the plugin.

Title: Re:Output plugin?
Post by: xen-uno on October 29, 2003, 01:12:01 pm

Thanks Matt :)