RemoteShowControl-Loop

Continuously Control Irisdown RemoteShowControl

Automatically and continuously control a remote PowerPoint slide-deck with the help of its Irisdown RemoteShowControl plugin, based on vMix input name information.

Problem

When ingesting the screen or HDMI captured output of a PowerPoint slide-deck into vMix scene inputs one has to ensure that the correct slide is selected within PowerPoint. Often, PowerPoint is running on a different computer than vMix, too.

Solution

The PowerPoint plugin Irisdown RemoteShowControl is installed into PowerPoint and listens on a TCP port for control commands.

This script continuously observes which vMix input is in PREVIEW and if its name contains the string [rsc:N], this script remotely instructs PowerPoint, through its installed Irisdown Remote Show Control plugin, to go to the particular slide number N.

Usage

On a scene input embed the screen or HDMI captured slide content as a layer and add to the end of the input name e.g. [rsc:42]. Whenever this scene input comes into PREVIEW, PowerPoint switches to slide number 42 and as a result, the input scene in vMix shows the correct slide before being cut into PROGRAM.