Anyone able to get FF/RW working on Media Control plugin?

[videophile]

Resume works great with DivX movies and is very handy..

However no luck with FF/RW. When I select Media Control menu and select FFDshow presets I get.. Invalid Application .. Unable to launch "MediaRemoteMCE"

Can't set bookmarks either which would have been very cool..

As best I can tell I followed the instructions on the developers website..

Don't suppose there is another more straight forward free plugin that does all these very handy things?? (Having to use skip to go back and fro on a movie means I need to buy batteries for my remote too often.. )

[itr2401]

One thing that I noticed with the Media Control plugin is that it installs an older version of proppage.dll (the same file as needed by dvrmstoolbox).

Anyways - to cut to the chase, all I have installed is ffdshow_rev2098_20080903 - no media control plugin, dvrmstoolbox and proppage.dll version 6.6.6001.17131 (which is much newer than what media control provides).

With that I can fast foward / rewind xvid mpeg-4 (as listed by avicodec). I dont have any DIVX files to check functionality here tho - but given it works for one I an sure it would work for the others.

The reason why I dont have the Media Control Plugin installed is that it was doing some funky things with media center upon standby / resume - cropping out certain area's of the screen after use and then resuming from S3. In some cases it also was preventing my system to enter S3 state - only fix was to reboot the system and then S3 would work. When I uninstalled media control everything went back to normal - always good to test changes in a development environment first before putting into production which is how / why I found this out.

[logifuse]

itr2401,

So you're saying that you've got FF/RW working for AVIs without Media Control installed? Can you confirm your installation steps, & what exactly enables FF/RW - is it proppage.dll?

Thanks,

Justin

[itr2401]

Originally Posted by logifuse

itr2401,

So you're saying that you've got FF/RW working for AVIs without Media Control installed? Can you confirm your installation steps, & what exactly enables FF/RW - is it proppage.dll?

Thanks,

Justin

Sure. I have 2 environments - dev and production - dev is where I ensure things are working before I play with the production system and loose any WAF

The first part of my testing was to get dvrmstoolbox working (latest EA release), and downloading the 1.xGB ISO which contains the Vista Dev Kit. I extracted the relevant cab files to obtain the x64 version of the proppage.dll file and registered that manually. Once dvrmstoolbox was up and running, next part was getting VMC to play some of those AVI files.

On my dev box all I did was install ffdshow_rev2098_20080903 (x64 but I dont think this will make a diff) and then installed media control. I was not testing FF/RW at this point more so AVI files from various sources. I noticed that as a result my system wouldnt S3, but when it did - it would resume with some black edging ont he RHS, lower part of the screen - almost as if the VMC interface was not full screen & the top window. The task bar was also visible.

I backed out of both of those - by uninstalling both, and went to check dvrmstoolbox to ensure it was still working. The dvrmstoolbox now reported that proppage.dll was unregistered. I took note of this and worked out that the media control application installed / uninstalled proppage.dll - which is ok - I can copy that over again and re-register.

I did that, reinstalled just ffdshow and VMC played back the AVI's as expected. I paused / FF/RW the files without even thinking about it. When I saw this post I double checked to make sure.

I am guessing that proppage.dll is able to provide insight to the actual file to the various plugin's that are looking to see what is working / active. This is why the FF/RW could be working. I certainly do not have media control installed on my production box - and everything is working there just fine.

As for the ffdshow install - I just took the defaults - no special configuration or changes made during the installation itself.

[videophile]

Thanks for the reply,
Is there anyway to just download the proppage.dll file without the 1GB Dev Kit ISO?
I don't really trust those DLL sites..
I'm using Vista Premium 32bit

Cheers.

[jollster101]

Originally Posted by videophile

Thanks for the reply,
Is there anyway to just download the proppage.dll file without the 1GB Dev Kit ISO?
I don't really trust those DLL sites..
I'm using Vista Premium 32bit

Cheers.

Google and you will find. I found it on a few different places that were trustworthy.