heh yeah but making a nice universal means i need to learn there code which means i either have to open the remote and learn the codes manually which is time consuming or i can search the net for info. But there isnt any.
Why not do what I suggested and program the pic to learn the commands?
Button on pic turns on "learn mode" which waits for an incoming signal
Press a button on remote.
At what speed did you clock the 4620 in the (cool) video
Do not make the IR remote stuff more complex then it is. There are only a few standards and as birdman said you can punch the button on your remote and capture the command with a PIC or a PC.
The current avatar uses a transparent background. If I was going to clean it up, I'd just clean up the edges of the transparency. That way I use one avatar for whatever forum I'm on and it always matches the background even if that forum changes colour schemes or has multiple style options.
I don't know if this will help you. Here's the button presses for 1, 2, 3, and the play button. You can download the Logic analyzer software yourself to review these files.