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Hello George,
Remote Buddy automatically chooses the correct behaviour depending on
the applications running. It gives the front most applications
priority, but, this is especially true for eyeTV, if it doesn't know
the front most application, it'll also analyze the situation and
status of the applications running in the background.
You can use AppleScript to activate a certain Behaviour
programatically - or you can select it manually in the Remote Buddy
menu.
However, if you press the menu button, you should see the name of the
currently active Behaviour in its "title" line. If its EyeTV, the
behaviour for EyeTV is fully active. The same applies to VLC.
A Behaviour is always fully active or it really isn't. So, if you
only get part of the functionality that you usually get, this very
likely is not caused by Remote Buddy or - to the most part - not even
by the app you want to control, but rather by the video codec used in
the QT movie / TV channel you want to play / watch.
Many video files - or streamed video - simple won't allow you to
exercise the same control over playback as a video file that was
created and encoded specifically to suit the needs of that
application and its main focus / purpose.
Another technical detail to underpin that: Remote Buddy uses
AppleScript for every EyeTV action it is implementing, so it is -
said simplified - basically directly calling the functionality EyeTV
has to offer.
Best regards,
Felix
