Other than the KeyFactory plugin, which of course breaks other program functionality, does anyone have any other methods of working with the RW1/2 and MC? I'm willing to use Girder, but it seemed that re-assigning all of the regular ATI functions (for the TV tuner for example) would be pretty difficult if not impossible using Girder.
I've also noticed that with MC11 the multimedia keys on my Microsoft keyboard are no longer working without manual reassignment, so it seems to me that either MC is no longer recognizing the regular "multimedia" windows messages or that Microsoft changed the regular windows messages recently and MC hasn't "caught up" yet.
It wouldn't be ideal (an actual MC plugin for the RW1/2 would be ideal) but a possible stop-gap solution would be a generic MC remote plugin that properly recognizes those windows messages that are sent by the Remote Wonder and most multimedia keyboards (I haven't tested it with a Logitech keyboard but my 2 different Microsoft ones don't work). This probably wouldn't be as difficult to create, and would help a broader cross-section of users.
EDIT: I actually re-tested this and the keyboard keys do now work. They must have been broken in an old build of MC for a while and I scripted a work-around and never realized that it had been fixed.
Though, I too suspect that ATI's Remote Wonder is going to be a fairly popular choice, and may be worth JRiver's time. The AIW cards provide a lot of what someone building a HTPC needs, ATI now offers a HDTV Tuner card, and the Theater 550 Pro chip-based cards are garnering some great reviews (the TV Wonder Elite ships with the new Remote Wonder Plus).