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


 
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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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tccat(1)						      General Commands Manual							  tccat(1)

NAME
tccat - concatenate multimedia streams from medium and print on the standard output SYNOPSIS
tccat -i name [ -t magic ] [ -T title[,chapter[,angle]] ] [ -L ] [ -S n ] [ -P ] [ -a ] [ -d mode ] [ -v ] COPYRIGHT
tccat is Copyright (C) by Thomas Oestreich. DESCRIPTION
tccat is part of and usually called by transcode. However, it can also be used independently. tccat reads source (from stdin if not explicitely defined) and prints on the standard output. Directory contents is concatenated, if source files have the same format. Multiple AVI-files are also supported. OPTIONS
-i name Specify input source. If ommited, stdin is assumed. You can specify a file, directory, device, mountpoint or host address as input source. tccat usually handles the different types correctly. -t magic Tell tccat about the type of input. Currently only dvd is supported - any other parameter will be ignored. -T title[,chapter[,angle]] Select DVD title and extract only a single chapter with selected viewing angle. Setting the argument chapter to -1 means to process all available chapters on the DVD. If this option is given, the input type of dvd will also be assumed (see option -t). -L This option tells tccat to loop through all chapters starting at the one given with the option -T. -S n Seek to program stream (VOB) offset nx2kB before starting output. -P Stream full DVD title specified by -T. -a Use this option to dump an AVI-file/socket audio stream. The default is to extract and concatenate AVI-file video stream. -d level With this option you can specify a bitmask to enable different levels of verbosity (if supported). You can combine several levels by adding the corresponding values: QUIET 0 INFO 1 DEBUG 2 STATS 4 WATCH 8 FLIST 16 VIDCORE 32 SYNC 64 COUNTER 128 PRIVATE 256 -v Print version information and exit. NOTES
tccat is a front end for streaming various source types and is used in transcode's import modules. EXAMPLES
The command tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 1,-1 | mplayer - reads all chapters belonging to title 1 of a DVD (assuming that /dev/dvd/ is a symbolic link to a real DVD device) and pipes a MPEG program stream into player. AUTHORS
tccat was written by Thomas Oestreich <ostreich@theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de> with contributions from many others. See AUTHORS for details. SEE ALSO
avifix(1), avimerge(1), avisplit(1), tcdecode(1), tcdemux(1), tcextract(1), tcprobe(1), tcscan(1), transcode(1) tccat(1) 15th January 2002 tccat(1)