[mythtv-users] Mythvideo + Xine/Mplayer + LIRC

[Bryan Murphy]

Well, first thing's first, Chris said he wasn't using irxevent so I 
doubt that killing irxevent and restarting it is going to fix his 
problem.  Second, I suspect it's more complicated than this as irxevent 
doesn't automatically go into the background, so you would more likely 
have to restart irxevent with something like the following:

    nohup irxevent &

And finally, I thought irxevent sent it's events to the topmost window 
anyway?  I'm currently experiencing this problem as well, whenever I try 
and watch a video in mplayer through the MythTV interface. I'm at a bit 
of a loss myself.

Anyway, in my case, doing the following:

    pkill irxevent; xterm -e "/usr/bin/mplayer -vo sdl -zoom -quiet %s"; 
nohup irxevent &

to start mplayer prevents irxevent from sending events to MythTV while 
mplayer is running, unfortunately mplayer is still not recognizing lirc 
as an input, I get something to this effect:

    Setting up LIRC support...
    mplayer: could not connect to socket
    mplayer: No such file or directory
    Failed to open LIRC support.
    You will not be able to use your remote control.

If I don't kill irxevent, irxevent simply queue's up the events and then 
sends them to MythTV instead of mplayer. 

Any ideas?  I've searched for these error messages on google and have 
only found posts in foreign languages which I do not understand.

Finally, the one thing I do differently is I run X directly and don't 
run any window managers.  It's quite possible that this may be a part of 
the problem, but I haven't tested this theory yet as I intend to rebuild 
the machine anyway.  Mandrake just hasn't been cutting it lately so I'm 
going to move over to a Debian based distro!

Bryan

>You might have to kill irxevent and restart it when xine exits.
>
>pkill irxevent;xine -blah -blah; irxevent 
>
>Something like the above might work.
>
>On Sat, 2003-08-23 at 06:12, Chris B wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm using MythVideo and Xine with LIRC, both in "client" mode, i.e. no 
>>irxevents.
>>
>>The problem I have is that, when xine is running and I'm using the 
>>remote, the underlying Mythvideo is receiving the lirc events, too, and 
>>ACTING upon them, leading to undesired navigation (ESC, arrows, etc...)
>>
>>Is there an easy way to tell LIRC or Mythvideo not to act on events if 
>>the window is not focused or would that require mythtv patching?
>>
>>Thanks
>>- Chris -
>>    
>>