Remote control for videos on your computer?

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Bach5G
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Remote control for videos on your computer?

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I’m working through guitar instructional videos on my computer and I thought it would be handy to have a remote.

Is there such a thing?
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Kind of. You can use an app called Unified Remote from a phone. You can also try looking into IF receivers that might work with universal remotes. There is a learning curve to setting things like this up and may not be worth it.
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Try here:
https://fossbytes.com/android-apps-control-pc/

Basically you want the phone to control or emulate a mouse.

So maybe it would be easier to just have a wireless mouse. We had them at work until the network people said they were a risk.

We had a little dongle that inserted into a USB and talked to the wireless mouse. You could be pretty far away from the PC and still control the screen.
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Any Bluetooth mouse or trackpad should work for this...
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Wireless mouse or keyboard (you could even buy a smaller portable one) is an easy option, or if you're using a mac you can use a physical Apple Remote (about $20) or the Remote app on an iPhone to control it as far as play/pause, volume, etc. This may also work for iTunes on a Windows PC, but I can't vouch for that.

If you play it through bluetooth speakers or headphones then often the play/pause button on the headphones, or the speakers remote, will also work to control video playback.
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