Ryan @ Nitobi

I completely blew it last hack day … I seem to recall sitting in my bed spitting phlegm into a cup. But I’m ready to drink this Saturday. Oh I might do some hacking too.

I recently set up an old tower as my media server at home, and its all hooked up to my tv through the tower’s tv out. But to play stuff I have to use vnc to connect remotely, and its just not very usable. So I wondered if there was a desktop remote for controlling a media player on one PC from another. PC is the key word, since I already found one for Mac. There might even be a free one already out there for PC too, but I’M DOING IT ANYWAYS. I get to use my blossoming Ajax skills to make something I can use at home.

So VLC has an http interface, which simplifies things immensely. Its a decent media player too, so thats my server. For the client, I was initially thinking about making a Yahoo Widget, but then decided to make an AIR app since I haven’t messed with AIR much yet, and feel like a retard when James or one of our other experts is discussing it. Maybe if I come out with something half decent, I’ll port it over to a Yahoo Widget for the masses.

So hopefullly I’ll have something to use, and share, after this weekend. I’ll post the results after my hangover subsides.