PC Remote reco ?

[rajatQ2]

Hi,
Can you guys recommend a good remote control for a home theater PC? I'm looking to spend $20-$50 on it, so no fancy features required, just good simple design.

I use VLC media player for almost everything. Play, pause, volume, skip, plus a few programmable buttons are what i'm after.

Thanks,
raj

[Devhux]

Best bet would be to track down either a Snapstream Firefly, or ATI Remote Wonder (I think the latter will work without an ATI graphics card too).

[ski]

I got one of those $8 ones from eBay 2 summers ago, and used a free/open source IR program. Looks like this

sample auction (http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-WinIRC-PB-Fast-Media-Remote-8-direction-Pointer_W0QQitemZ300066755536QQihZ020QQcategoryZ51086QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem).

Worked great with Winamp (I think someone wrote a plugin for it). To be honest, it was a lot of research and headache to get to work, so if all else fails and you want to tinker around with it, it'd work. But try out the real name brand, boxed ones first.