I currently get VLC to respond to my microsoft/cyberlink remotes by using VLC hotkeys to put essental play, pause, next, previous skip back etc onto keys which the remote can generate i.e. tonto arrow keys and numberpad, bcause that'all that gets through from remotes to VLC.
It works, assuming one can remember what button does what, but I'm not looking into a different approach. IF I use a freeware keyboard remapper, I should be able to control VLC with the correct play/pause etc remote buttons, assuming the remapper catches & changes them on the fly into values that I can put into VLC hotkeys
So What I'd like is a nifty little desktop shortcut that runs the remapper, then launches VLC - and ideally also cancels the remap once VLC is closed. Now given that what I know about batch files & the like in Windows would fit on the back of a very small postage stamp, any anyone tell me if this is plausible & how to go about it.
I'm looking at using a freeware called keytweak as the go-between. If I have to have the remapper always active then I'll try to find some obscure keys to map the media controls to ,e.g. CTRL+ various letters, that will not interfere with other apps. IT would be nice if VLC could have more than 1 hotkey assigned to a single fuction but that does not look possible ?