Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:01 AM
In all of the hubbub over the release of Visual Studio 2005, I neglected to announce the release of another Coding 4 Fun article on MSDN. This one interacts with Windows Media Player 10. It extends a sample application from the Media Player SDK to allow you to skip and/or mute sections of media clips as they play. The time codes get saved as XML files alongside the original files so they are non-destructive. The name is “Non-Destructive Media Edits.“ Not really edits, I suppose, but the same effect. Nice to screen/censor material for family viewing.
I'd really like to extend it further by modifying it into a Media Player plugin (background plugin) so it kicks in automatically when a media file is played and the sidecar XML file is present. Unfortunately I can't find any managed samples of background plugins and I'm not ambitious enough to try with hand-crafted COM interop. Anyone seen anything to start me out?
Check out the article at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/inthebox/NDMediaEdit/default.aspx