Ideas needed for remote control of PC

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From: Serapax
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 01:38

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Hey all,

I have a PC in the study with DVD and it's also my main gaming machine.  At
the moment I output DVD to the telly via 10 meter S-VHS and audio cables
down the hall to the lounge.  It's a pain to run back and forth to
start/stop/pause etc, but the quality is great and this PC is a bit too
noisy to have in the lounge anyway.

I plan to put a lesser PC (no monitor but will have output to the TV when
not viewing output of the DVD PC) in the lounge to play mp3's.  All my PC's
are connected via 10mbps Ethernet, so I was wondering if there is some way I
can take advantage of the keyboard and mouse on this machine to control the
better PC in the other room when watching DVD's (and ideally even games on
the tv!).  I'm assuming that something like PC Anywhere isn't what I'm after
because I really only need to have keyboard/mouse input to the other machine
which is sent via ethernet, with the high-bandwidth audio/video going
straight to the TV (ie I won't even have a monitor for the lounge PC) rather
than having a virtual desktop.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers!

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