Gettin’ Apple’s Remote to Work with VLC
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If you’re like me, you’ve been using VLC for most of your video needs on the Mac since it’s free and will transcode so much more than QuickTime Pro will. But the VLC team hasn’t got a hold of a MacIntel yet to integrate the Apple Remote into successfully. (The latest version has a plug-in in the advanced settings, but it doesn’t work.) Watching anything with commercials in it on your Apple Remote enabled Mac can be a drag when it’s hocked up to an external monitor or TV. Well worry no more, Apple Remote Helper is here!
ARH gives you play/pause, next, previous, and volume control all from the little white Apple Remote that came with your iMac, MacBook Pro, or Mac mini. Simply launch ARH and then VLC and you’re off to the couch for some veggin’! By the way, ARH is a free download.
[tags]software,download,apple remote,vlc[/tags]
9 Comments
macbook
January 22nd, 2007
at 10:49am
download link is not working
Rob
January 29th, 2007
at 1:28pm
Hey cool. Looks really promising!
Andy
February 7th, 2007
at 4:15am
Is there another download site as the file isn’t on the link provided?
Daniel Ringwalt
April 20th, 2007
at 7:13pm
I don’t see what you mean about the remote control not working.
Essential software for Mac OS X - Robert’s talk
May 7th, 2007
at 1:34pm
[...] Apple Remote Helper (Freeware) [...]
C Bailey
July 8th, 2007
at 3:34pm
What about fast-forward and rewind? Next and previous only goes to next and previous in playlist. Would be useful!
Alpha Zero
September 29th, 2007
at 9:35pm
I wrote a small util that makes the Apple Remote work with Microsoft Powerpoint, Winamp, VLC, WIndows Media Player, gmail, yahoo beta, firefox.
Check it: http://geekheads.blogspot.com/2007/09/controling-you-apps-in-windows-on.html
xurizaemon
October 1st, 2007
at 12:35am
i don’t think he said “remote not working”, i think he said “download link not working”
i’d love to see this app - are there any OSS projects offering a library or controller for apple remote??
Integ
February 6th, 2008
at 6:24am
The download link says that the file is not found.
Where can I download ARH?