The Media Center Sandbox

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 and is seem that MediaExperience goes to la-la land after a certain amount of time or certain random actions.

How do I consistently play a video and go full screen?

Anyone else seen this?

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- Sam
samsaffron.com

I haven't seen MediaExperience not be available, but I have seen issues where the GoToFullScreen just doesn't work.

Cheers,
Andrew

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.

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- Sam
samsaffron.com

Have you guys worked out a way to reliably GoToFullScreen?

I put a 200ms sleep in after executing PlayMedia before calling GotoFullScreen which seems to work.

Cheers,
Andrew

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 since tvpack ....

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- Sam
samsaffron.com