Windows Media Connect SDK? "casey chesnut" <casey[ at ]MORE_SPAM_PLEASEbrains-N-brawn.com> 5/23/2007 4:38:58 PM can i use Windows Media Connect 2.0 to create my own UPnP AV MediaServer, which runs outside of WMP11? specifically, i'd like to create an app that is similar to TVersity or Orb for transcoding videos to the XBox 360. Thanks, casey

Re: Windows Media Connect SDK? "Chris P." <msdn[ at ]chrisnet.net> 5/24/2007 7:23:58 PM On Wed, 23 May 2007 11:38:58 -0500, casey chesnut wrote: [Quoted Text] > can i use Windows Media Connect 2.0 to create my own UPnP AV MediaServer, > which runs outside of WMP11? > specifically, i'd like to create an app that is similar to TVersity or Orb > for transcoding videos to the XBox 360. The WMC 2.0 was rolled out as a standalone application prior to WMP11 (it was alpha or beta at the time). It works as a standalone UPnP media server. Installing WMP11 I believe removes WMC and uses the WMC build built into WMP, which is basically exactly the same thing anyway. I haven't tested the transcoding abilities and I'm not even sure there is any. WMC did decode the audio to PCM if the receiving side didn't support the format, not sure if the same was true for audio. There might be more info here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/devices/wmconnect/readme.aspx -- http://www.chrisnet.net/code.htm [MS MVP for DirectShow / MediaFoundation]

Re: Windows Media Connect SDK? "Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil[ at ]nospam.com> 5/24/2007 7:37:42 PM On Wed, 23 May 2007 11:38:58 -0500, "casey chesnut" <casey[ at ]MORE_SPAM_PLEASEbrains-N-brawn.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >can i use Windows Media Connect 2.0 to create my own UPnP AV MediaServer, >which runs outside of WMP11? >specifically, i'd like to create an app that is similar to TVersity or Orb >for transcoding videos to the XBox 360. Note that you can no longer download WMC2 (or WMC1 for that matter), it was inexplicably removed from the download server once WMP11 was released. Any source for that installer would be a 3rd party site with the associated security risks. Cheers - Neil ------------------------------------------------ Digital Media MVP : 2004-2007 http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Re: Windows Media Connect SDK? "casey chesnut" <casey[ at ]MORE_SPAM_PLEASEbrains-N-brawn.com> 5/24/2007 10:33:22 PM my follow-up question would be, is there an SDK for the WMC part of WMP11, which would allow me to create my own app for transcoding to the XBox 360? i'm assuming the answer is 'no', and that i'll have to look into using Intel's UPnP AV implementation to create my own MediaServer. Thanks, casey