vortmax

I have a media PC on my local network patched into my reciever. It's running win2k and I am accessing it by means of realVNC at the moment. If you are not familiar with realVNC, it is basically the same thing as windows remote desktop that works across platforms.

Anyway, it's too slow for me. It's transmitting too much info across the network that I don't need. I don't need to see the screen and the desktop to control what I want. All I want to do is have a media player loaded on the media box and control it locally through any computer hooked up to the network.

I have a plugin for winamp that turns winamp into a mini http server and lets me control winamp via a webpage.... however it is slow and not all that spectacular. I would idealy like a physical player that would clone it's appearence on the local machine. So on my desktop I would have an instance of winamp open, but it would just be a mirror of the actual instance of winamp running on the media PC. Does this make sense? Anyone know of a media player or plug in that will do this?

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