Remote control for a PC?

bizzybody · Post by **bizzybody** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:16 pm

I'm putting together a PC just for playing DVD and VCD/SVCD and have been trying to find an add-on IR remote control that can connect via serial, parallel, USB or some other way.

The remote software MUST be Windows 98SE compatable. (Or 98 original or 95B.) The hardware MPEG2 decoder card I'm using, a Diamond Multimedia DVD-2000, only has drivers for Windows 9x. There are NO drivers for any other version of Windows, Me, 2000 and XP do NOT have support for the card "built in", I tried it, no worky. As for Linux, I seriously doubt it supports the card.

I'll be using PowerDVD 3 on it, or whatever the newest version is that still supports Windows 98SE.

The PC is an AT board with everything built in, running an AMD K6-2 450 and 64 or 128 meg SDRAM. I have the ATX Form Card, network port dongle and everything else to plug into it.

If you're thinking "Why?", it's because I have all the pieces, except the remote control, and it's something neat to do with old hardware. I got the Diamond DVD kit in the box, unopened, with a Toshiba 1x DVD-ROM drive, for FREE.

Post by **The Robman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:19 am

http://www.streamzap.com/

zaphod7501 · Post by **zaphod7501** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:59 am

The Creative CIMR-100 (serial port) goes for about $7 if you can find one. MCM electronics usually has them but appears to be out right now. Girder has built-in plugins and there is a JP1 upgrade for it. It's main disadvantage is that it generally targets the active window, not background processes (sometimes can be done but takes tinkering with Girder files).

I had an old Quadrant card but found that it physically couldn't do anamorphic DVD's correctly and couldn't do 3:2 pulldown, leading to stretched images on almost everything. You might want to experiment before spending too much effort. My old card might just work on a new HD set because of additional display options but I haven't tried.

bizzybody · Post by **bizzybody** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:06 pm

The Diamond card is made by Divion, which I can't find any info on. There's a rather bad video player program called Divion, but no relation to this MPEG2 card.

www.streamzap.com "can't be found"

Post by **The Robman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 3:51 pm

bizzybody wrote:www.streamzap.com "can't be found"

Are you sure, it works for me...