[mythtv-users] mythvideo plugin on xbox - controls don't work

[Keith Hanlan]

Thanks for your quick reply Kevin.

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Kevin Kuphal wrote:

>Keith Hanlan wrote:
>> Can somebody suggest a course of action?
>>
>It has nothing to do with mythvideo.

There were two problems noted; one of them is mplayer/xbox/lirc
but the other is mythvideo. Specifically, I couldn't get
mythvideo's "internal" playback to work. Mythvideo is rather short
on documentation but I believe I'm supposed to be able to
configure it to use mythfrontend's internal playback. When I do
that, I get no response.

>You need to get your LIRC support working in mplayer.  I don't
>run an xbox so I can't say for sure what you need to do other
>than it really has nothing to do with Myth.  I'm sure there is
>plenty of information online in the form of howto documents for
>mplayer and LIRC.

I've looked. I did my research before the original posting. I saw
lots of issues, but none that looked like mine. In my case, each
component seems to work properly.

I know that lirc is working for me since I use it successfully
with mythtv. I know that mplayer is trying to use lirc since it
logs the fact: "Setting up LIRC support..."

Actually, I know that mplayer is using lirc because when I press
the arrow buttons, I see the X cursor appear and move. That
suggests that mplayer using lirc incorrectly. However, I can't
figure out how.

Could it have something to do with the mplayer input.conf file?
I'm unclear on the role of that file when lirc is used.  Does that
somehow conflict with the lirc configuration?

I assumed that lirc receives the keypress events, translates them
to some sort of command and passes them to mplayer. So, why would
it translate them to the *wrong* events when it sends the commands
to mplayer as opposed to mythtv?

Still soliciting suggestions.

Thanks,
Keith Hanlan
Ottawa, Canada