Avid Software

The OS is XP Home, which I keep up to date with service packs and patches.

The main commercial product applications are:

• J River Media Center (JRMC) for CD and music jukebox.
• DigiTV, for TV, radio and recording.
• Zoom Player, using codecs from PowerDVD and WinDVD for playing DVDs, and from the Moonlight Elecard player for playing TV recordings.

Control from the Pocket PC is provided by three related products:

• Girder (which runs on the server)
• NetRemote (which runs on the Pocket PC)
• Tonto (which acts as the editor for NetRemote screens, and comes bundled with NetRemote)

Both Girder and NetRemote are open extensible products and all three are designed to work together to provide a complete remote control solution.

Girder has a large selection of 3rd party plugs-ins, some of which I am also using:

• LUA Events
• LUA Socket library
• MBM (which accesses temperature data from the shareware MotherBoard Monitor)
• SetWaveDev to dynamically switch the sound output between the TV and HiFi speakers
• DigiTV, originally written by me, but now substantially re-written and vastly improved by John Hind.

Finally, there is the software written by me. These comprise four NetRemote drivers (plug-ins) which extend the functionality of NetRemote. Two of these four also come with matching server components which run on the HTPC.

The drivers are:

• AvidUtils - a set of general-purpose additions to NetRemote, adding more powerful text handling, drop-down menus, timer capability, etc.
• Zoom - to allow direct control of (and feedback from) the Zoom Player from within NetRemote.
• PlayPick - to allow media files (such as TV recordings) to be selected from a list and played with a choice of player programs.
• EPG - to present an Electronic Program Guide for DigiTV on the Pocket PC and allow recordings to be scheduled and managed.

Before switching to JRMC, I had been using Windows Media Player for my music jukebox and CD. To support this, I developed:

• WMP9 - to allow direct control of (and feedback from) the Windows Media Player from within NetRemote.

All the software written by me is available for download, complete with source which is released under the MIT license.

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