[mythtv-users] Getting control of my remote

Matthias Thyroff lists at thyroff.net
Tue Jan 16 09:21:06 UTC 2007


Dave M G schrieb:
> Matthias,
>
> Thank you for responding.
>   
>> try
>> ln -s ~/lircrc ~/.mythtv/lircrc
>>     
> That seems to have had some improvement, I think. Now, when I press the 
> "play" button, the video fast forwards a little. That's not the hoped 
> for effect, but it's at least some response.
>
> I thought that maybe the problem was with Mplayer, so I tried 
> configuring MythTV to use Xine instead. Unfortunately that doesn't seem 
> to do it.
>
> These are the commands for the video player that I'm using in the MythTV 
> setup:
>
> xine -pfhq --no-splash
>
> mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s
>
>
> These are the commands I've got in my lircrc file, for "pause", for 
> mythtv, Mplayer, and Xine:
>
> # Pause TV while watching TV (This works when watching live TV)
> begin
> prog = mythtv
> button = Pause
> repeat = 3
> config = P
> end
>
> # Pause video in Mplayer (This doesn't work at all)
> begin
> prog = mplayer
> button = PAUSE
> repeat = 3
> config = pause
> end
>
> # Pause video in Xine (This doesn't work at all)
> begin
> prog = xine
> button = PAUSE
> repeat = 3
> config = Pause
> end
>
> Is there something I'm missing here?
>   
Hi Dave,

in "button" you have "Pause" for mythtv, PAUSE for mplayer; make sure
you spell everything the same as in your lircd.conf.

Cheers

    Matthias



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