My Home Theater PC is hooked up to my HD TV. When viewing video, one is using that HD TV, and so any input devices (keyboards, mice, etc) are controlling that Home Theater PC and thus MC18.
However, when listening to music, the HD TV may be off entirely, or it may be showing satellite TV (thus not using MC18).
If I use an MCE remote, it is likely on the couch across the room when I want to pause audio (to answer phone, doorbell, etc).
So, what I want to do is to map an unused key on other laptops in the LAN to send the command:
MC18.exe /MCC 10000, 0
("pause")
to the \\MEDIA-PC in the LAN.
One suggestion was to use psexec.exe, but it turns out that it requires too much changes in the setup to allow access.
I thought of using WebGizmo, which has pause, but evidently WebGizmo does not have any of its own Global shortcut keys for functions. So, I have to first bring up WebGizmo, and then press pause on it.
So, I am hoping for some other suggestion...