Skype and MCE
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on October 4, 2005 in Developer Blog.
Have you ever wanted to turn your Microsoft Windows XP Media Center (MCE) PC into a communications machine? If so then a cool upload has just been entered into the extras gallery.
Christoph Buenger has written and submitted an MCE plug-in that will allow you to listen to voicemails, accept or reject incoming calls. It will even pause the current program and allow you to take the call, and then when you are finished it will resume the program from where you left off.
All by using the MCE remote and from inside the MCE shell.
Pretty damn cool...
If you have an MCE then take a look a the application here.
Here are a couple more screen shots.
Comments
hello. I wish I had MCE. I have Cyberlink cinema media center thingy.
djay-ice | Tuesday, Oct 4
I got MCE and it would be great to use SKYPE in my livingroom,via remote. cool I'll try it.and thanks
olvision | Tuesday, Oct 4
IS there anyway to get free skype credit?
dtgoonie | Tuesday, Oct 4
Thats awesome!
dtgoonie | Tuesday, Oct 4
I tried MCEPhone and only got a bunch of runtime errors... Come back when it is no longer a beta version.
charlesthistlethwaite | Wednesday, Oct 5
yo soy cmo soy
vitoxiqq | Thursday, Oct 6
ju pershendes
gjakova-ch | Sunday, Oct 9
hello gjakova
gjakova-ch | Sunday, Oct 9
Shame it doesn't support Media Center Extender or Media Center for Xbox
christiansim | Tuesday, Oct 11
cool!
now i can skype with folks from the couch while they're checking out streams of home videos i've shared with them straight from my MCE through Orb!
ianmccarthy9 | Tuesday, Oct 11
What about support for us pour souls with MCE2004?
MS doesn't exactly offer an upgrade DL for 2005
razza_jm | Wednesday, Oct 12
Extender-support:
Extenders have no microphone. How to make phone calls through it, though? The call history and voicemails will be accessible from extenders in a later beta.
MCE2004:
MCE 2004 does not support the functions i use in the plugin. So call notification will NEVER work in MCE 2004. The rest should work. I will check this.
cbuenger | Wednesday, Oct 12
Wow it's great thing. i can share with anybody in around the world.
cayhphils | Wednesday, Oct 12
Hi folks,
Love Skype, though I have yet to find much time to take advantage of it more than a few times.
Heard your co. was sold.
Also heard Skype can make me very visible on the web; True?
My Norton A-V has blocked two "attacks" from China - one was China Telecom, the other - another telco there. When I did some searching around, I read they don't knowingly allow your software to operate on their people's computers. I further read that Skype on my computer can make me vulnerable to their attacks. Yuk, eh?
thetufts | Thursday, Oct 13
ido not understand all the time when ispeak people ask me weather im crying how is this possible.
nakhone | Friday, Oct 14
New Beta 3 of "mcePhone for Skype" available! Just visit http://www.cbuenger.com to download the next (much more stable) beta for free.
Give any feedback to contact@cbuenger.com
Thanks
Christoph
cbuenger | Saturday, Oct 22
Hi,
It is amazing to run multiple Skype accounts/channels on the same Windows/Host.
What is your maximum value for Multiple Skype accounts/channels.
Please advise it.
Also, please send me your users manual.
quee7@hotmail.com
Thanks!
tw23710817 | Saturday, Oct 29
Hi,
Thanks for interesting in our products.
Please download the user manual from the link:
http://spin3d.dyndns.org/Skype/
If you have any question, please let me know.
service@spin3d.com.tw
Thanks!
yorkliao | Saturday, Oct 29