I have been banging my head at this for quite a few days, so maybe someone can give me some ideas, and rescue me...
I have reached remote control Nirvana with my IRA receiver, Girder and Pronto, so I am all backed up on floppy on that side.
On the other end, my VDF display is hooked up with the parallel port and displaying perfectly anything LCDSmartie throws at it.
I display
- text of my choice (like GNOLLO HTPC etc... One ring to rule them all etc..)
- Operative system details (free space on HD, cpu speed, time, day etc)
- Winamp title and time etc
What I am really missing now is ZoomPlayer display for my recorded media files on the hard disk or dvds played using dvd (and Dscaler program title if you like, but that is not really essential)
I have created a thread on JMH's website. He created a plugin for LCDsmartie, and I hope we can convince him that a ZoomPlayer plugin would be ideal (so voice your opinion and support, if you do support my request, on this thread
Basically I requested a plugin that could allow LCDsmartie to display
- Chapter number
- Title (name of file or DVD title)
- time remaining and time elapsed
- audio: (DD, DTS etc)
- Play, pause, ffwd, etc if possible to appear for 5 seconds when I select those functions in Zoom Player
I also looked in what Blight lists on his website as programs that support the Zoom Player Interface:
1)LCDMax @ www.lcdmax.de
All I could get was error messages, I tried all the combinations of LTP port, with no luck
2)LCDC @ lcdc.planetdps.com
Only works with LDC connected via Com ports
3)jaLCDs @ www.jalcds.de
Works on the DIGN VFD display but I get incredible stutter when I play music with WinAmp
(talking about 101 things that can go wrong on a HTPC0
There is a further solution I hear: Girder+ DVDSpy & LCD 1.51 plugins.
a) how do you configure it? I downloaded the plugins but I am none the wiser. Anyone have links where a walkthrough is offered on how to configure DVDspy?
b) will the Girder-DVDspy-LCD plugin allow me to display:
- text of my choice (like GNOLLO HTPC etc... One ring to rule them all etc..)
- Operative system details (free space on HD, cpu speed, time, day etc)
c) if the answer is no, can they work together with LCDSmartie?
The quest to the perfect, standalone DVD player like liquid display functionality has begun...
I have reached remote control Nirvana with my IRA receiver, Girder and Pronto, so I am all backed up on floppy on that side.
On the other end, my VDF display is hooked up with the parallel port and displaying perfectly anything LCDSmartie throws at it.
I display
- text of my choice (like GNOLLO HTPC etc... One ring to rule them all etc..)
- Operative system details (free space on HD, cpu speed, time, day etc)
- Winamp title and time etc
What I am really missing now is ZoomPlayer display for my recorded media files on the hard disk or dvds played using dvd (and Dscaler program title if you like, but that is not really essential)
I have created a thread on JMH's website. He created a plugin for LCDsmartie, and I hope we can convince him that a ZoomPlayer plugin would be ideal (so voice your opinion and support, if you do support my request, on this thread
Basically I requested a plugin that could allow LCDsmartie to display
- Chapter number
- Title (name of file or DVD title)
- time remaining and time elapsed
- audio: (DD, DTS etc)
- Play, pause, ffwd, etc if possible to appear for 5 seconds when I select those functions in Zoom Player
I also looked in what Blight lists on his website as programs that support the Zoom Player Interface:
1)LCDMax @ www.lcdmax.de
All I could get was error messages, I tried all the combinations of LTP port, with no luck
2)LCDC @ lcdc.planetdps.com
Only works with LDC connected via Com ports
3)jaLCDs @ www.jalcds.de
Works on the DIGN VFD display but I get incredible stutter when I play music with WinAmp
(talking about 101 things that can go wrong on a HTPC0
There is a further solution I hear: Girder+ DVDSpy & LCD 1.51 plugins.
a) how do you configure it? I downloaded the plugins but I am none the wiser. Anyone have links where a walkthrough is offered on how to configure DVDspy?
b) will the Girder-DVDspy-LCD plugin allow me to display:
- text of my choice (like GNOLLO HTPC etc... One ring to rule them all etc..)
- Operative system details (free space on HD, cpu speed, time, day etc)
c) if the answer is no, can they work together with LCDSmartie?
The quest to the perfect, standalone DVD player like liquid display functionality has begun...