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    Any idea with touch-sensitive and remote controls to work with...

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by beto113, Oct 15, 2008.

  1. beto113

    beto113 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi there... ive being having problems with make the remote control or the touch-sensitive control to work with any program other than MCE. What im looking for is them to work within other programs like VLC, foobar(winamp/itunes). the detail here is that those programs needs to be running in background

    does anyone know how to make it works???


    googling around the only way that ive found was using the program inteliremote, it didnt work though


    any other idea???
    cheers Beto
     
    beto113, Oct 15, 2008
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    there is a winamp plugin... or if I remember well, you could enable 'global hotkeys' within winamp perferences and it works... (I think it was FlipFire, who mentioned about it long back and I followed it..)

    Let me get back with that info...

    Edit: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=251404

    http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/146178

    As far as I remember, I just enabled the 'global hotkeys' from winamp > preferences and its worked great....

    Edit 2: Ahhh yess... here > http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=274163 post # 4
     
    fonduekid, Oct 15, 2008
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    shadowlaw Notebook Consultant

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    Would be nice if this could work for itunes as well (as much as i hate apple products and how overpriced and how sucky their product is, iTunes is the only good software by apple)
     
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    Have you seen post # 4 from Flipfire, in the link above? :confused:
     
    fonduekid, Oct 15, 2008
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    Gez ><
    Sorry man ... i thought the post was for winamp only so i didnt read through thoroughly
     
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    beto113 Notebook Consultant

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    for the touch sensitive are great.. i will try out later and i will post here...

    but any idea with the remote control??

    cheers
     
    beto113, Oct 16, 2008
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    I use MPC-HC from CCCP, remote worked right after install. And global hotkeys for Winamp worked fine (had to add fast forward and rewind though)
     
    JacksonDane, Oct 16, 2008
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    I've used HIP to get XBMC to work with the travel remote. Perhaps it will help you too, though it's not the easiest to setup.

    I created a configuration file for it and XBMC (more by trial and error than knowing what I was doing) that you can find by Googling for the following:
    "dell travel remote site:xbmc.org"

    I just tested it with the touch sensitive media keys and they work as they send the same codes as the remote.

    I'm not sure how it would go for controlling things in the background though.
     
    hastarin, Oct 18, 2008
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