Hi Stuart! Thanks for both your posts. Much appreciated.
I'm actually going for a more lo-tech approach than live video over VNC. I just want to access the gui features of Freevo (tv guide, recording control, manage saved programs, weather plugin, etc). I store mpegs in a Samba share which is mounted by the mvpmc for playback using the file browser. Up till now, I've been using freevo-webserver to do all that, as the box is a SOHO server, and I don't want Freevo taking over the console display. Basically, I just need to configure key mappings to navigate the Freevo gui. Prelim testing shows Freevo sees the keypresses; they just don't work as they should. By transmit accross, I meant to say what does mvpmc pass through to the vnc server? Thanks for your posts. That gives me something to go on. Have a great weekend! /Mike -----Original Message----- From: stuart Subj: Re: [Mvpmc-users] VNC, the remote control and Freevo Date: Fri Oct 6, 2006 23:28 Hi again Michael... I re-read your post, looked at the Freevo web site and now think I understand what you want to do. Are you trying to create a remote thin video and audio client to a computer running Freevo? I don't think this will work as I don't believe VNC normally provides a remote audio feature. That, plus I think you will run into problems sending moving pictures using VNC. I am wondering how VNC compresses video. It might be orders of magnitude more efficient to send a video mpeg over your network. To that end, are there any Freevo clients out there that you can port to the MVPMC project? I would think that would be the best way to go. stuart wrote: > Hi Michael... > > What do you mean by "transmit across"? > > I believe the MVPMC project uses the original drivers to handle the low > level remote control processing. Then MVPMC handles the resulting > remote codes it's self. The only feature that transmits the remote > control out of the box is, as far as I know, MClient. It has been a > long time since I tried the VNC feature of MVPMC. Maybe it uses the > remote control as well - I don't know. Perhaps Iain can help with that. > > F.Y.I. Hauppauge uses RC5 codes on their remotes. There is an example > of a remote control look up table used to translate RC5 code into > slimdevices code in one of the MVPMC mclient*.c files. I think it was > the mclient_mvpmc.c file. > > There has been some lirc work done by Roland. I never had time to > follow up on this. I think his work is still alpha like. Here is his > last post concerning this: > >> Hello, >> >> I've created a lirc module for the mediamvp (to be honest, most of the >> code is copied from Jon's ir_mod.c and lirc_serial.c). For the moment >> it's alpha, as it breaks /dev/rawir, used in all applications. >> >> So far I've successfully trained all remote controls available to me >> using irrecord and verified that the config file for hauppauge remotes >> is working. >> >> were can this be useful? >> - using different IR than that provided (e. g. TV/DVD combi) >> - forwarding IR commands to another computer >> - controlling IR devices in another room (needs IR sender there, >> maybe the only way to watch/control HD-DVD or BlueRay from mediamvp >> for a long time) >> >> The following lirc tools are tested >> mode2 needed for debugging >> irrecord to create a config file for a new IR >> irw needed for testing >> and of course lircd >> >> What's missing (but on the way) is an tool/daemon to support /dev/rawir. >> If one is interested in testing/helping please contact me (but be >> warned, it's a bit of pain to get it running) >> >> Roland >> > > > Michael Brown wrote: >> Hi Folks! >> >> First of all, I'd just like to say thanks to you for making this fine >> software; I bought my MediaMVP specificially because of this project's >> existance. I'm wondering if some folks could point me in the right >> direction regarding the remote and VNC. If anyone else is using mvpmc with >> Freevo, I'd appreciate hearing from you too! >> >> My first question is "does mvpmc transmit accross the remote codes detailed >> on the mvpvdr website?" >> >> www.rst38.org.uk/mediamvp/protocol.html >> >> If so, are they sent as ascii codes, or are they altered or encapsulated in >> some way? >> >> This will help me figure out keymaps that I can post into the wiki for other >> freevo/mvpmc users. >> >> Thanks for your time, and happy thanksgiving to those who celebrate it this >> weeked! >> >> /Mike __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. 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