Archive for July, 2005

A while back I started toying with playing back DVR-MS files from Media Center on Server 2003. For no particular reason really. Just thought it might be fun. I didn’t bother going all the way through it since I didn’t really see the point. Plus I was able to do it just fine with GraphEdit on Server if I really wanted.

At any rate Jon (not TReKiE) decided that he wanted to be able to watch the files in Media Player on Server so with a little help from myself and Mark Salloway he’s got a working Server install playing back his recordings. Here’s the basic details:

“First, copy the following 3 files from the \Windows\System32 folder on your Windows XP machine to the \Windows\System32 folder on your Windows Server 2003 machine:
encdec.dll 6.05.2600.2180
sbe.dll 6.05.2600.2180
sbeio.dll 9.00.00.3165

Now run the following two commands from Start -> Run…:
regsvr32 encdec.dll
regsvr32 sbe.dll

Next, load Windows Media Player (or any other media player, I presume), a .dvr-ms file, and enjoy!
Note: Like a regular Windows XP Home/Pro machine, in order to play .dvr-ms files, you will need a DVD decoder installed.”

Here’s a link to the actual posting from Jon.

Found this cool filter for Adobe Audition/CoolEdit which lets one open up Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) files in Audition for editing and conversion. The filter can be downloaded from vuplayer.com free of charge. It’s been working great and because of Audition’s batch processing it’s really easy to bulk convert files to WMA for later streaming. Really sweet.

The Register say that IE7 breaks the Yahoo and Google toolbar. I personally haven’t seen that as I use Google’s toolbar on my second machine here, not sure about Yahoo since I’ve never found a benefit from any of its features. Looks like Scoble has posted about this as well. Things seem to be working just fine as seen in this screenshot, even so it’s a beta, these things are sort of expected. Despite The Register’s claims the only thing that seems to be nuked is their article.

UPDATE: Emailed Andrew Orlowski with a link to my blog and the simple question “did you actually verify this before posting?” here’s the response:

“Yes, it’s broken on many installations. It works on more.

If you paste your story into an email replay it might even get read.

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So I’m not sure what he’s actually trying to say. Your guess is as good as mine?

Installed the IE7 beta. Loving my tabs and such. Tested out everything I could including FlashBang to make sure it would work with IE7. Did want to post about this nice FLAC filter for Adobe Audition but noticed the rich text editor that’s used by dasBlog 1.7 isn’t IE7 ready. It should just work but my guess is that it’s not recognizing the browser right. Suppose it’s time to play and fix. There’s no way I’m giving up tabs now .

UPDATE: Did just notice this, which has a bit more info. Looks like it should be a simple fix/update.

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