sl789 Wrote: > JJZolx I wish it would be possible to have a "shadow screen" for > fraction of the price which will be syncronised with SB3 /and/or > slimserver. I agree it would solve the problem and would be the best > solution.
Assuming you have some way to move the video around, you could try one of the handheld-type skins for web pages and use a TV out card. I used to use a Windows machine for gaming with a TV-Out. I called it my XPox, which seemed approriate: it had a TV-Out, no monitor, and a Playstation controller hooked up to the USB. A bit of a pain navigating in Windows, but certainly doable and the handheld skins should work fine at 640x480. Windows though the Playstation controller was a mouse. :P You'd have to convince your remote to be more like a mouse if you wanted more control, but you would at least see what was playing. > > But for business reasons it's higly unlikely that option of additional > remote screen would be on market from slimdevices. > Sure, but not because "we can sell more Squeezeboxes this way!" Really, once you have the ethernet and the display driver (even if it's an NTSC output instead of the existing one) the cost of the hardware is going to be the same or more than a Squeezebox. It wouldn't be cheaper for the consumer, so, it wouldn't sell. > > Using Wi-Fi PDA as remote (sort of Sonos type remote) - I don't know if > there is an application which allow it and it's not as convinient > because each time you want to see what's playing you need to turn it > on, of course no plug-ins etc > Sure it would have plugins: plugins run on the server. As for applications, there are two: one is an Ewe-based (think java stripped to its bare essentials for portability, but less bloat for more speed especially on small devices) and uses the command line interface to the server, the other way is to use either the handheld skin or the nokia770 skin in the web browser on the device. Quite a few people are using the nokia770 skin fine and some are doing so on Playstation Portables. It works so well that lots of people seem to use it on pc's. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24620 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
