[mythtv-users] mythvideo, lirc and mplayer problem

[Michael T. Dean]

On 08/21/2004 10:43 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 03:02:14PM +0100, Stephen Tait wrote:
>  
>
>>At 15:02 21/08/2004 +0200, you wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I am having problems getting lirc to work with mplayer for mythvideo.
>>>LIRC does work for all the other mythtv components but when playing back
>>>videos with mythvideo the remote doesn't work. I have compiled mplayer
>>>(1.0pre5) with lirc support and I am using mythtv 0.15.1 with native
>>>lirc support.
>>>
>>>In my ~/.mythtv/lircrc I have entries like
>>>
>>>begin
>>>prog = mplayer
>>>button = stop
>>>repeat = 3
>>>config = quit
>>>end
>>>
>>>for mplayer, but they don't seem to work. I am forgetting something?
>>>      
>>>
>>Yup! mplayer reads it's LIRC information from ~/.lircrc, not 
>>~/.mythtv/lircrc. Just copy the mplayer entries from one file to the other.
>>    
>>
>
>Did I read that you can just link the two files together?  They are the
>same format, right?
>  
>
Yes.

Assuming you have your file at ~/.lircrc,

ln -s ../.lircrc ~/.mythtv/lircrc

Or, if you have your file at ~/.mythtv/lircrc

ln -s .mythtv/lircrc ~/.lircrc

Mike