I got my first Slingbox yesterday and it's very exciting!

However, I've also put the trial of SlingPlayer Mobile on my HP iPaq rx5935 - a Windows Mobile 5-based device - and it's behaving strangely. (This may be a UK-only model - I am in the UK.)

The iPaq lets you orient the screen in any of four directions by pressing a rotate button on the side. I usually have it up a particular way, portrait, 180 degrees round from the way the (portrait) boot screen appears. I wondered initially if it could be to do with this but it behaves erratically regardless of the way around it is so I'm not sure now.

Basically what happens is pretty hard to describe but the video part of the application window can go all over the place and in some instances can actually be back to front - a mirror image of what's on TV! Exactly what it does at any point depends on the orientation of the screen and whether the bottom menu bar is currently showing or whether it is currently full screen.

In some instances there appear to be two copies of the video area, partly overlapping, with one rotated 90 degrees around from the other. They may be different shapes too. Most TV I watch is widescreen so I have letterboxing enabled on the PDA and when I first turned this on this also changed the symptoms from one weird mess-up to another.

I can make it perform fairly reliably if I rotate the screen so it is the way up it is designed to be for in-car GPS use - landscape with the text printed on the PDA surround up the right way - and then click near the bottom of the screen so that the bottom menu bar stays on screen. If the menu bar goes away the picture goes crazy again. Obviously this is usable and I can put up with it but I'm a bit disappointed to need to spend £20+VAT on a piece of software that behaves so erratically. Also this will mean part of the screen is obscured by the menu bar if I am watching a 4:3 programme.

Can anyone suggest what might sort this weird (and frustratingly difficult to describe!) problem out? I've tried searching the forum (and web) for my iPaq model and not got anywhere (the only decent result I found suggested it should work fine) so apologies if this has already been addressed somewhere.

Thanks in advance!