Tag: UWP

Infrared Camera in Media Foundation

The screenshot above shows Surface Pro tablet’s infrared camera (known as “Microsoft IR Camera Front” on the device) captured live, encoded and streamed (everything is hosted by Microsoft Media Foundation Media Session by this point) over network using WebSockets into Chrome’s HTML5 video tag by means of Media Source Extensions (MSE). Why? Because why not.…

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Xbox Live outage

So Xbox Live fails to log in certain users (for the third day!) and I happen to be located “near the epicenter”. No problem description that makes sense, just 0x80a40010 code, no outage announcement, support is ridiculous. Development is blocked because application deployment to device fails with the message: ————————— Microsoft Visual Studio ————————— Unable…

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UWP Media Element fullscreen playback bug

New platform, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), offers new Media Foundation bugs. UWP Media Element embeds a Media Foundation video renderer to present media video frames played back. Under certain conditions, the Media Element control fails to present video inline with just incrementing the presentation time indicating playback in progress. Nevertheless once expanded full screen the…

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Reference Signal Source: Hello, UWP!

Media Foundation version of Reference Signal Source is UWP friendly. It can be played using stock MediaElement control (whether it is a C# or JS project), is also Direct3D aware and friendly and as such integrates well with the MediaElement. Then on top of that the whole bundle is even WACK friendly and is ready…

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