Posts by Justin

John, Depending on how adept you are with pure OO design principles the .Net SDK docs themselves might be a good start. .Net itself is mostly a "clean sheet" redesign for Microsoft. That is they took modern OO principles...

Anything built in VS.Net can be built with the free command line compilers from MS. In the future perhaps even Mono. Quote: Originally posted by JohnAd Maybe. My main desire for keeping things in C++ would be the desire...

I really think .Net is ideal for this application. Here are some reasons: 1. Using winforms you can have relatively low level GDI+ access. Or complete platform access through Pinvoke, or perhaps even DirectDraw or Direct3d if...

I definitely did not mean to imply writing directshow filters in C#, but building and controlling filtergraphs is another matter, its analogous to pushing buttons on av components, it doesn't have to be high performance like the...

This thread seems more to my taste, I kinda got caught up in the HTPC AV Switcher thread when I should have been here. I might suggest as a possibility, instead of ActiveX script/COM, to go .Net CLR for the UI/Server. I have done...

I don't mean to be troublesome here, I suppose I just got overly excited at the possibilities of a software based HTPC AV Processor, and misunderstood the direction this project was taking, and I will go back to lurking so as not mix...

Honestly if we are not going to capture the data in order to scale/process it, then it would be much simpler to buy a few serial controlled AV switch boxes that are controlled by the PC. There are various DVI/vga/svid/audio ones...

This is a great subject, and I would like nothing better than to use my HTPC as the central switching matrix for all forms of media. I believe with the right software and hardware this could be done now, with the exception of HD...

I would love to hear something too. It doesnt give me much faith that we will ever move past mpeg2 hardware assist anytime soon. How about a WMV Hardware ENCODER too, anyone? Justin

If you mean use the firewire as a video card to display your windows desktop to the tv, I believe that is impossible right now. In order to do that someone would have to write a video driver that internally compresses the raw video...