Wow!
You can now use the Sling Catcher remote control to send mouse/keyboard commands to the PC: OK (left mouse click) and Enter (Enter key click). This can be used to control some applications on the PC via your Sling Catcher remote control.

Almost there. Thanks for the taste of I hope things to come.
Now all we need is a way to move the mouse pointer around.
Gee Sling. I ask for to much. LOL

Thanks for the Christmas gift Sling.

Wow! The Video's on my favorite website now look great on my 24 inch flatscreen too.

http://www.jpopasia.com/play/13463/ayumi-hamasaki/green.html

I also notice on LAN. haven't tried WAN yet. Start out at very high bit rate. and optimize only take 1 or 2 seconds. When older version use to start always with low number 50 and go up slowly and switch between optimize and streaming. ie 50,10,200, 300 ,400 stream, 350 optimize 450, 600, stream........
But now start out at 6,000 as soon as connect and stay at this number. Optimize go away and streaming starts in about a second. I hope WAN work as good.

Thank You Thank You. Now really nice to use Sling catcher on Home TV's

Ok, Just installed on my 64 Bit Vista laptop.
Dual core 2.8 gHz CPU X9000
Nvidea 8800 MGTS video card
4 GB of memory. No other applications running. Turned off AV software too.
Connected directly to router.
Turned off desktop pc. So only things on network are. Catcher, laptop and router/modem.

Even doing all this and making the window small with the Low profile selection.
The projector eats up CPU all the way to 100 percent and the sling catcher PC warning light come on. The bit rate crashes and burns. It tells me My computer is does not have enough power to run this application.

Yet, The 32 Bit version running on my desktop with CPU x9650 3 Ghz quad core
and Nvidea 8800 GT runs fine and only uses between 20 to 25 percent CPU and works great.
There must be something wrong. with the 64 bit version.
If anyone gets the 64 bit version to work on their laptop without crashing. Please let me know. What make modle and video card and cpu you are using.
I find it hard to believe. I'm going to need a Quad core CPU to run this program on 64bit laptop?

Thank you

I agree with Billy, Slingprojector is great for streaming media from the internet, but for files already on your hard drive, the catcher should be able to network stream without the need of a connected USB port. This was not clear to me when I purchased the unit. Hopefully this is an upgrade soon to come.

Alf7 said: I agree with Billy, Slingprojector is great for streaming media from the internet, but for files already on your hard drive, the catcher should be able to network stream without the need of a connected USB port. This was not clear to me when I purchased the unit. Hopefully this is an upgrade soon to come.

As I said above.  This very simple to do.

In fact I use the files on my external net drive all the time.

As I said.  Just start Audio Video player such as Windows media player or Winamp.  Then Use Sling projectore program and move the projector window on top of the player and click the mouse.

It will play all your music, playlists, videos..............

I have no need to plug drive into USB port at all.

 This is what Sling catcher/projector was made for.

So very cooooooooooooool!!!!

The only thing missing is to add mouse pointer control to remote.  Sling is on the way I hope.  becuase they just added Left mouse click and enter key.  Now we just need to move the mouse pointer around.

Maybe they can just use the left, right, up and down keys for this.

Once again.  You can stream over LAN right now to the catcher.  No need for anything to be plugged into USB port.

I downloaded the latest software; but I still can't seem to play my many family videos one after the other. I still have to push 3 or 4 buttons for each video clip even though the clips are all in the same folder. Clicking "Mode" only cycles between alphabetical sort and date sort. Am I missing something??

johnandpetertv said:

Brandon C. said: The other cool thing is playing folders. Why would you want to do this? Because of music files. Put all your music files into one folder click play and it plays them all in order. Cool!

How do you do this? Sorry about the double post but I'm going crazy trying to play my videos one after the other without having to click 3 or 4 buttons for each video in the same folder. Does SlingMedia have an instruction manual how to use the new features? Any help will be much appreciated.

Never mind. I discovered how. First go the folder (don't open it) then hit the play button. The folder will play all videos in the order (Mode) that you've chosen.

I very much like the the conversion feature which, while slow, certainly does a great job of converting my MOV Hi Def movies (Panasonic TZ5) to Hi Def movies which play using USB and Slingcatcher Media.