Charlie Owen - The Specification for Q Is Now Posted

The Specification for Q Is Now Posted

Sorry I've been absent for just about two weeks. I've been 'heads down' with preparations for Mix06. We had the keynote run through today and things seem to be on a good trajectory.

I locked myself in the home office tonight and finally cleaned up the cruft from and posted the specification for Q. Keep in mind this thing is nowhere near final -- I'm sure we will have bunches of revisions in the months to come, mostly in response you give us via feedback and comments.

[An hour or two later...]

OK, I got so jazzed playing around with our alpha drop and the opening sequence from Schematic I just had go all Channel9 / Robert Scoble-ly and make a short video to give you a sneak preview.

My hat's off to Robert, Kevin, Peng (Schematic folks) and Mark and Stephen (Microsoft folks) for doing such a fantastic job on this stuff on a super tight deadline. You guys ROCK!!!!!!

Specification: http://www.mediacentersandbox.com/q/qspecification.zip

Movie: http://www.mediacentersandbox.com/q/qmoviealpha.zip

As always, comments are welcome.

P.S. Oh, and you'll notice I'm no longer referring to this puppy as our Mix06 project. :-) That's because we are going to ship this application source code with the Windows Media Center SDK as a sample.

Categories: Media Center Application Design | Q | Comments [5] |

| Posted on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:28:56 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Friday, March 17, 2006 1:55:10 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Just skimmed throught the specs, and thought to myself, this is cool, then I watched the video and was like Holy Smokesssss!!!!

Tunji Afonja

Friday, March 17, 2006 2:30:08 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

We tweaked some more today and it looks even better. Wait 'til you see. :-)

Charlie Owen

Sunday, March 19, 2006 3:06:08 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

wow, that is looking good :)

is there going to be a way to sort out the watched/unwatched videos when there are a ton of them?

kenny

Wednesday, March 22, 2006 3:35:22 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

I see the speciation mentions about support for QuickTime, etc. I am finding that many video blogs are using QuickTime or MPEG4, I am sure because of the success of the iPod and iTunes. How difficult is it to support QuickTime in MCE? Is there any information about this? My company is building a video product for MCE and we would like to support QuickTime, too.

Bob Davidson

Friday, March 24, 2006 7:03:29 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Actually, the spec calls for support of itunes ELEMENTS in the RSS feed, not for any Apple media format. If you want to support Quicktime you will probably want a separate feed (check out the Rocketboom feeds, which are tailored to the specific podcast client). As far as supporting Quicktime in Windows Media Center via our APIs -- we don't natively. There might be some hacks out there, but they are just those -- hacks.

Charlie Owen

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