{"id":1007,"date":"2007-03-09T03:59:37","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T11:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2007-03-08T23:21:18","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T07:21:18","slug":"media-control-plugin-for-windows-vista-media-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/09\/media-control-plugin-for-windows-vista-media-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Control Plugin for Windows Vista Media Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was first introduced to this plugin on a MS newsgroup: Media Control Plugin for Windows Vista Media Center<\/a>. If you have bunch of downloaded or personally encoded videos (dvix, xvid, mkv, ogm, etc), you’ll notice that the FF\/RW (fast forward and rewind) buttons on the MCE remote control<\/a> don’t work. You can use skip forward >| and skip backward |< which is nice and jumps a couple minutes each push, but it’s really not feasible if you want to jump to somewhere deep into the video. If you hold it down, for some reason, it just jumps straight to the end after a few seconds.<\/p>\n

Pushing the FF\/RW buttons does pop up the seek bar or time line thingy (is there another word for this?), but doesn’t actually fast forward or rewind. A couple people brought this up in the newsgroup and asked for a solution, when someone posted this site: Media Control Plugin for Windows Vista Media Center<\/a>. This was exactly what I was looking for. It’s features include:<\/p>\n