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I’m in the process of getting my Home theater PC in order.

One of the many online video services that I use is Amazon Video on Demand. I am in the process of figuring out all of the ways in which I can use a remote control to navigate services and software that I am using in my setup.

Hulu desktop was a breeze, I can simply use the apple remote to navigate and I can use the excellent Understudy plugin for front row (make sure to get 0.7!). However, there is no desktop client for Amazon VOD for OS X.

So I figure I’m going to write a thin skin to their service and hopefully integrate it into Frontrow similar to Understudy’s integration of Netflix and Hulu.

First things first, I really needed to figure out what keyboard shortcuts are available for their flash-based video player to see which key presses I would need to make work with the apple remote. So without further ado, here they are:

Video Player

• SHIFT-F - full screen
• ESC - exit full screen
• SHIFT-R - rent movie/episode
• SHIFT-B - buy movie/episode/series
• SHIFT-L - go back to your library listing
• UP - volume up
• DOWN - volume down
• RIGHT - skip ahead 10 seconds
• LEFT - skip back 10 seconds

Your Video Library Listing Panels

• UP - move up
• DOWN - move down
• RIGHT - move right
• LEFT - move left
• PGUP - up one page
• PGDOWN - down one page
• ENTER - show video details (if movie or tv series) / drill into show tv episodes
• ESC - close video details / move back up to series (if in episodes list)