Hit a wall

Not sure where to go now. The two possible ways are;

1. To write a skin and plug-in for Media portal.
Been skinning the last few days (learning xml and c#). Realized that media portal doesn't have a decent SDK to get to the players themselves.

To get to them I'm sure that I'm going to have to make use of the GPL and use their own code for the implementations for their media players. I'm don't think this is plagiarism due to the GPL . I know it technically doesn't show any academic merit but I'm not building a media player I'm building a way to control it.

2. Treat the remote as a keyboard with custom keys (I.E. volume button, play pause)
This allows a more global approach, for example right now I'm wanting to reach for the Wiimote to turn the sound up. Implications of this is letting windows do the work and giving the playlist creation controls to Windows Explorer.

These arbitrary gesture, i think, more reflect the spirit of this project of controlling the 2D space with 3D control and pretty much already exist from previous development cycles (there are arbitrary gestures in the skinned version)


To do this the design change needed is one gesture to represent enter the volume level selection (currently it clashed with Audio mode)