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schnidrig

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Using remote with MC in virtual machine
« on: February 10, 2005, 04:08:40 pm »
Hi

I replaced my MS-Windows PC with a Linux box a long time ago. But since I could not find an even remotely similar good Media Center running on Linux, I keep using JRiver MC. I run MC in a virtual machine (vmware).

On Linux I have a remote controll tied to lircd.  Does someone happen to know how I could make that remote work with MC running in the virtual machine?

Thanks for any hints.
Christian
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Re: Using remote with MC in virtual machine
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2005, 08:49:58 am »
No idea, but what you are doing is very cool. Let us know if you find out how to make it work.

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Re: Using remote with MC in virtual machine
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2005, 03:06:37 pm »
Cool indeed. I'm fairly surprised that it works.  It might be a nice solution for me.  My file server runs linux/samba.  I'm suffering an extra network hop because of it (media is on file server, but MC Media Server has to run on my (Windows) web server).  Perhaps I could run the MC Media Server instance in a virtual machine on the file server.  Hmm.

Have you found any limitations (other than the one about which you are asking)?
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Re: Using remote with MC in virtual machine
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2005, 04:30:11 pm »
It's funny that you guys find this cool. Personnaly I hate it, but since I could not find a better solution I'll have to live with it until JRiver will port MC to Linux  ;D   Yes, day-dreaming is a hobby of mine.

Limitations?

Well, I'd prefer to run rdesktop to connect to the virtual machine, but if I do that, the sound quality is crap, therefore I have to use vmware's console instead.

VMWare does not use KDE's aRts server. That means I have either MC or Linux sound, but not both simultaneously.

On the upside:
I found that MS-Windows runs much more smoothly in the virtual machine than on the real hardware. It used to crash at least once a week while I had it running natively, but now it runs for months. I usually only reboot it when it forces me to after a security upgrade.

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Is there a specification of MC's Web-Server interface? It may be possible to have lircd transmit the remote's commands via http to MC. However, I don't know what to send.

Regards
Christian
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