[mythtv-users] Mythvideo + Xine/Mplayer + LIRC
Chris B
news at semperpax.com
Sun Aug 24 02:38:27 EDT 2003
Bryan,
I think posting your ~/.lircrc would be useful.
mplayer (as far as I know, I use Xine) is using native lirc, too, so is
independent of irxevent. Could it be that you use a non-standard lirc
socket? It should be /dev/lircd. I think I remember I had to "chmod 666"
it , too.
Regarding my problem, looks like a commit to MythVideo just popped up
that might exactly solve it :-)
Bryan Murphy wrote:
> 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
>
>
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