VLC and the Apple Remote
Tonight I was trying to play some videos that my friend gave me and I wanted to watch them using Front Row. Quicktime would not open the videos, and although I did not spend much time trying, I was not able to convert them into a format that Quicktime would open. VLC, however, played the videos just fine. I really didn’t want to spend much time tonight researching how to make this work, so I just thought I would see if there was any way to get the apple remote to work with VLC, and sure enough there is.
I found this thread where a guy points out a tool he wrote that hooks the apple remote to VLC, which can be downloaded here.
In under 2 minutes my problem was solved. I love the Internets!
Nice. I went looking for that before since I don’t use Frontrow and wanted to control VLC. I ended up with Mira http://twistedmelon.com/ which I’ve since removed (pay for software?).
Not sure if you’re aware of this, but VLC nightly builds have WMV support (they’re flakey too!). http://nightlies.videolan.org/build/macosx-intel/
Comment by Eliot — December 8, 2006 @ 2:00 amI love the internets too…. how else would i do my christmas shopping
Comment by tate — December 8, 2006 @ 2:14 pmVLC just released 8.6 which has native support for the remote
Comment by Chris — December 10, 2006 @ 12:42 pm