Creative iNFRA Problem/Information

[Ron]

David wrote to me about that:



Would like to emphasize that this driver is for the RS232 iNFRA interface as
sold with DVD encore package and DOES NOT work with the CD - iINFRA


-Ron

[Ron]

An IR receiver on the game port. I guess they find new places to connect them to every day. I'm sorry to say that I don't have any drivers for that, if you have programming experience it should not be all that hard to make though.

[Ron]

I don't think the game port offers a IRQ, you just have to poll it. The game port can be accessed pretty easily from windows. I can look it up for you.

[Ron]

The Developer page has an example for the Borland compiler, see the developer page or download below:

Skeleton (http://www.stack.nl/~stilgar/windoze/files/Skeleton_2_bccvcc.zip)

[Yvonus]

Just to let you know that I've just started experimenting with a REAL Magic remote and its serial-connected IR receiver. This works just fine with Girder and CT Infra hardware plugin.

[wewez]

Hi
I Have Creative iNFRA 52X with remote
when i run the CTInfra Hardware Plugin i must choose a com port in it.
and i dont think there sany com ports for infra creative.
btw i didnt install the infra program yet
thnx,,,
Bassam

[wewez]

Thats was bad news ~(
Thanx anyway ~)

-Bassam

[xingo]

I got a guillemot Realmagic card but the IR connection is on the joystick port. When i select anything but com2 it screams at startup and on com2 (that holds nothing on the connector no IR code is received of course). is there any solution for that ?

[xingo]

Then I will try tonight.
any hints on where to start to get info about how to tackle that ? I have a SB64 and the info on the joystick port only shows a memory range, no IRQ. maybe from a linux or beos driver for standard SB16 card ?

[xingo]

yes it seats on port 201, but my first tries are not really conclusives, i can't see any changes on the port. It might be using the midi port which will be another serial thingie, but i can't find yet info on how to pull the midi port. I look deeper into that.

I downloaded the free bc++ but there are no projects for it in the plugins example directories. I will try to cook one from the VC++ projets, unless some one already have this kind of beast in stock ?

[Edited by xingo on 04-10-2001 at 07:26 PM GMT]

[xingo]

Thanks i try it right away. I have confirmation that it is the midi port i have to pool, i found thoses references in the remote control programm (midirc.exe) shipped with Realmagic.
midiInOpen, midiInClose, midiInReset,
midiInStart, midiInStop, midiInUnprepareHeader, midiInPrepareHeader,
midiInAddBuffer, midiInGetErrorTextA, midiInGetDevCapsA, midiInGetNumDevs, midiOutClose

It's really tiny (45K with less than 1/3 of real code), but i hope there is no init string to send before reading the data.
I try to find a small example of thoses functions on the net, and give it a try.

[Edited by xingo on 04-10-2001 at 08:23 PM GMT]