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tool to emulate keystrokes out to a ps/2 device?

hey all,

i am trying to connect my mac to my sony DVD changer so that i can control one aspect of it with any kind of shell script or program.

the DVD player allows you to plug in a PS/2 keyboard to navigate it's on screen menu. what i want to do is use my mac to navigate my own menus, then when i need to select the dvd i want it sends the a given number of up/down arrow keystrokes along a USB port with a ps/2 converter thingy on it.

i know i can do this all with IR, mimicing the remote's up/down, but considering it has to go up or down up to 200 times, i figure a direct connection would be faster and more reliable than IR.

and yes i realize sending an IR signal to pic DVD #240 would be better, but sadly this SORY product doesn't allow that????

anyone ever tried anything remotely like this? using a machine to emulate a keyboard?

thanks for any help, and howdy!

cheers
andrew

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NAME

       pxfw - Firmware flashing tool for Plextor CD/DVD devices

SYNOPSIS

       pxfw -l
       pxfw -d DEVICE [-if firmware.bin] [-u] [-f] [-v]
       pxfw -d DEVICE [-e] [-r] [-t] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       pxfw is the linux firmware flasher for Plextor CD and DVD drives.  Remove any disks before flashing.

FEATURES

       You can flash the firmware of these drives:
       Plextor Premium, Premium-2, PX-712, PX-716, PX-755 and PX-760.

DEVICE

       can be an IDE, SCSI, SATA, USB or FireWire connected optical drive. Not all SATA controller support all Plextor features.

       Linux:
       /dev/hdX: IDE device
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OPTIONS

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       -e   read EEPROM from DEVICE.

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       -t   test which opcodes are supported by the device.

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EXAMPLES

       pxfw -d /dev/hdc -if 755_1.07.bin -u
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       pxfw -d /dev/sr3 -e -oe file.foo
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Gennady ShultZ Kozlov						  02 April, 2009							   pxfw(8)