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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: bdhall on June 21, 2005, 08:30:26 pm

Title: Automation using vb.net 2003 or 2005
Post by: bdhall on June 21, 2005, 08:30:26 pm

Has anyone used the Media Core Commands from the command line to issue a playback command to a specific zone in J Rivers Media Center (presently using version 11.0.292). The following seems to work fine to toggle play/pause in the currently active zone:
Shell("C:\WINNT\System32\MC11.exe /MCC 10000, 0")
Hopefully an actual example of a command would help me to understand the mask procedure in order to direct a playback command to a specific zone. Many thanks (in advance) for any help in this matter.

Title: Re: Automation using vb.net 2003 or 2005
Post by: dwightk on July 21, 2005, 01:02:48 pm

If you are using vb.net to control Media Center it might be easier to use the Media Center SDK (a COM component for controlling Media Center).

http://www.jrmediacenter.com/DevZone/MJAutomation.html

I have played around with using the beta of VB.net 2005 with this component and it works great.

Dwight