Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated

Stephen Toub, another Microsofty published a add-in for media center that allows you to navigate to a specific time code in a file that you are watching (a basic feature I wish MCE had); this was originally done for a article he wrote explaining how to write Media Center add-in's (Time Travel with Windows XP Media Center), but he just updated it so it will work on VISTA and the XBOX 360, check it out at: http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2007/01/03/position-changer-add-in-updated-for-windows-vista.aspx.

If this works it's pretty cool because Brian can possibly use this as the basis bookmarks for mpegs and other video formats, I just tried it on my 360 and it worked like a charm.

One note you have to manually install it, to do so:

  1. Copy the contents of the debug folder to \Program Files\MCE\Position Changer Add-In
  2. Open a command window with administrative privliges
  3. cd \windows\ehome
  4. fsutil hardlink create PositionChangerAddIn.dll "\Program Files\MCE\Position Changer Add-In\PositionChangerAddIn.dll"
  5. cd "\Program Files\MCE\Position Changer Add-In"
  6. "\windows\ehome\RegisterMCEApp.exe" /allusers "PositionChangerAddInReg.xml"
  7. Restart all of your Media Center Sessions...

In any event pretty cool.

Print | posted on Saturday, March 17, 2007 2:45 PM

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 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 3/29/2007 9:04 AM John Kennedy

I am sorry, but I am missing something here. I opened a cmd window with admin ctrl-shift-enter. I navigated to ehome dir and enitered the fsutil hardlink create PositionChangerAddIn.dll "\Program Files\MCE\Position Changer Add-In" command and was returned Error: Access is denied.


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# re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 3/29/2007 10:50 AM Ryan

You need to run the command window at as a administrator.


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 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 4/10/2007 5:38 PM MattsterChief

Make sure that your fsutil command is:
fsutil hardlink create Positionchangeraddin.dll "C:\program files\MCE\Position Changer Add-In\PositionChangerAddIn.dll"

That gets rid of the access denied message


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 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 5/16/2007 8:30 PM Carlos

I keep gettin the error unable to lauch error. I have windows vista, xbox 360 and my movies installed. Could I have made an error installation? Where is the debug folder?
Thanks for any help Carlos


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# re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 5/16/2007 9:18 PM Ryan

What are you doing when you get this error? e.g. is this being returned by mce, by one of the commands bellow?

The debug folder is in the download on Toubs site.


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 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 5/17/2007 6:18 AM Carlos Amador

By the MCE.


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# re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 5/17/2007 9:59 AM Ryan

I would look at the windows event log and see if MCE put any usefull information in there; I would double check you followed the above steps 1st though (since you couldnt find the debug folder).


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 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 5/17/2007 5:26 PM Carlos

Thanks, I got it up working. I initially compiled the old code so I need to undo the registry changes and reinstall it following the directions. This is great plug in.
The debug folder lies in the bin registry.
Carlos


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 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 5/18/2007 9:21 AM Carlos

Can you bookmark an mpeg on the 360 or is that function disables. Thanks again carlos


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 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 6/19/2007 11:34 PM Sash

Am I missing something. Where is the pathtoaddin.msi for Vista. Also after install what button initiates the function


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# re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 6/19/2007 11:36 PM Ryan

The add-in MSI is on toub's site, see: http://blogs.msdn.com/toub/archive/2007/01/03/position-changer-add-in-updated-for-windows-vista.aspx his site also says what buttons invoke the add-in.

And to the earlier poster, no the vista version doesnt support bookmarking but the earlier version for MCE 2005 did.


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 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 6/22/2007 7:36 AM Sash

mate I must be blind. I checked that page and it has a zip file for vista as far as I see. I also meant to ask can I use this plugin with any remote? I am using imon remote from www.soundgraph.com

thanks


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 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 6/27/2007 7:14 AM Sash

No reply guys....


 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 9/16/2007 7:49 AM TM

I am admin, still get Access Denied...


 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 10/14/2007 8:51 AM dbqp

Make sure that you observe MattsterChief's clarification to step 4.

In step 6 you may also need to specify c:\windows\ehome\RegisterMCEApp.exe /allusers "PositionChangerAdd-InReg.xml"

The debug folder is inside the zip file on Toub's website.


 re: Time Travel with Windows Media Center Add-In Updated 4/30/2008 10:07 PM Matt

1. Copy the contents of the debug folder to \Program Files\MCE\Position Changer Add-In
2. Open a command window with administrative privliges
3. cd \windows\ehome
4. fsutil hardlink create Positionchangeraddin.dll "C:\program files\MCE\Position Changer Add-In\PositionChangerAddIn.dll"
5. cd "\Program Files\MCE\Position Changer Add-In"
6. c:\windows\ehome\RegisterMCEApp.exe /allusers "PositionChangerAddInReg.xml"

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