>Zakaria,
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>It'd be impossible to write the code in VFP.

Well you'd need at least the Windows Media Enocoder SDK or an activex to do it...

>I just got a new machine with a TV Tuner card it uses the Windows XP Media Center Edition and it does a fairly decent job at displaying live TV as well as record it. The recorded files (at best quality) weigh in roughly at 1 megabyte per second, a 60 minute recording is around 3 gb. The Windows Media Player is capable of playing these dvr files but it can't display a live stream from the tuner directly.

This is a result of Micro$oft doing things to cripple us again. XP MCE records to DVR format (or rather MS-DVR format) and basicly it's a DVR file with their ASF wrapper stuff around it. Reason they did this to us? So that when you record something with it - two evil little things can happen. 1) You can't do it - it just records all black, or 2) If it DOES record - it will only playback on the MCE machine that it was created on. (and oh yeah - if you ever re-install your OS - those recordings are useless). All this has to do with their Digital Rights Management junk (DRM). A good example - try recording something off of HBO sometime and see what happens.
There is a lot of other TV tuner software out there that doesn't do all of this to ya. It grabs form the tuner card directly, allows you to record directly to other formats (like mpeg, divx, etc) - doesn't block recording from any specific channels. There are also little boxes that you can get that plug into yer cable line prior to your TV tunner card that will allow you to record all the channels - they cost about 80 bucks but I don't know if their even legal to use or not...
FYI - a good place for MCE info is here... http://www.thegreenbutton.com



>>thank u for yr answer
>>i just feel that without ocx you are always able to control yr program better
>>any way thank you very much.