Well, wasn't that fun? Yeah, OK, so menu screens are kind of boring. But I'm sure one or two completeists out there are happy. You can't complain that I skipped something. So now, let's connect to my Slingbox so I can show you the SlingPlayer UI.

Unfortunately, it looks like the PalmOS screen capture utilities I tried can't capture the video itself. Whenever I tried, it would only capture the UI with a black area where the video should be. It probably relates to the way the video is written to the screen, since the capture utilities grab the screen buffer. Sorry.

When you first connect, the screen will say Locating... as it looks for your Slingbox.

Once it has connected, that changes to Starting...

If the device feeding the Slingbox is not on, this is the screen you will see. I tend to keep my TiVos in Stand By, so I see this each time I connect until I wake them up.

This capture was taken during video playback. You can see what I mean about the black pane instead of video. The reason I've included this is to show the statistics display in the upper right. The player appears to be software limited to 15fps. While I have seen it spike as high as 19fps, that has only been during very static content. During normal playback, even as the bit rate fluctuates, the frame rate remains at 15fps.

Note that this is very watchable, so this isn't a complaint. I just want to point that out so people don't wonder why they can't get higher frame rates.

The left-most icon switches the SlingPlayer UI into remote control mode. The bar under the video pane shows the remote control functions. There are two sets of controls and selecting the icon repeatedly toggles between them. Or you can use the arrows at either end of the bar.

The bar's controls are pre-set and cannot be customized.

The second icon switches into Favorites mode. As with the remote control bar there are two sets of buttons. By default they're all blank, you can customize them as you see fit.

To edit the Favorites you can select a blank button, or select the fourth icon along the bottom. If you select the icon, the first screen allows you to select the button you wish to edit.

Favorites buttons can be customized with the included channel logos, other (custom) channels, or remote control functions.

OK, so I didn't screen capture the entire list of logo channels. It goes on like this for about 30 screens. You'll just have to install the application to see the list for yourself.

When you select a channel, you are then prompted to enter the number for that channel.

For the Custom Channels you enter a name and number.

For Remote Control Functions there are four screens of options.

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