The Media Information library allows a remote controller to retrieve information about the currently playing media item.
The Media Information library allows a target application to respond to a controller request for the details of the currently playing media item. These details are also known as the item's metadata.
The DLL that provides the functionality and the library to which your code must link is identified below.
Applications that wish to
make media information available must instantiate a CRemConMediaInformationTarget object.
The media information library provides classes that are used to construct metadata information in response to a MrcmitoGetCurrentlyPlayingMetadata request from the controller. This class is used to define the metadata requests that the application is willing to handle by selectively handling or ignoring specific metadata elements.
The key classes that provide the Media Information are as follows:
The object used by an application to handle Media Information commands and requests.
MRemConMediaInformationTargetObserver
This is an observer. It watches incoming remote control
commands and notifies the application if any of the registered commands
are sent from the controller device. An object of this class is used
when constructing the CRemConMediaInformationTarget.
The application watches for the specific requests set by
this object and responds to those requests as required. The library
shall provide values for all requested attributes for which data is
available. The library provides an RArray of TMediaAttributeId objects representing the metadata attributes
of interest to the application.
Provides an RArray of TMediaAttributeId values used by MrcmitoGetCurrentlyPlayingMetadata.
An application should implement the functionality from the key classes. When a Media Information request is received by RemCon it is passed through the interface to the application which should return the information as specified in the API documentation.