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is there anyway to interface my multimedia remote to VLC?

Depends. Which remote do you have? The MCE remote has some Windows Media specific command buttons that probably can't be mapped into VLC but an X10 based remote should be fully usable if you make an xml profile for VLC mapping the buttons to the hotkeys.

blah sounds like im going to have to write a program =| i hate to do that

well im going to post this now i kept looking a little harder and a found a program called "Girder" it works wonderfully, u can interface any device pretty much to any program >.> its really neat it also has built in support for VLC well thank you though ppl for what help u did give me though x.x