[mythtv-users] lirc and Xine

[James Orr]

On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 00:29, Darren Richards wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- >
> > I will give that a try tonight although I believe it is finding lirc.
> > Here's the relevant part of my ./configure
> > [malcolm at mythtv xine-ui-0.9.23]$ ./configure |grep lirc
> > checking for lirc_init in -llirc_client... yes
> > checking lirc/lirc_client.h usability... yes
> > checking lirc/lirc_client.h presence... yes
> > checking for lirc/lirc_client.h... yes
> > checking for "/lib/liblirc_client.a"... no
> > checking for "/usr/lib/liblirc_client.a"... no
> > checking for "/usr/local/lib/liblirc_client.a"... yes
> >
> > Looks to me it found everything lirc related it was looking for.  Sure it
> > took 3 tries on liblirc_client.a but it found it.  I'm stumpted.
> >
> > Malcolm
> 
> Malcom,
> 
> Did you ever get your remote working with Xine?  I'm having troubles myself.
> It seems that the focus remains on Mythtv.  Even if I click inside the xine
> window, any remote commands still get intercepted by Mythtv.
> 
> I've set up my .lircrc files as outlined previously in this thread, but I
> just can't get xine to accept remote commands instead of the Mythtv front
> end.  Any ideas?

I have lirc working with Xine.   You are very sure xine is compiled with
lirc support I take it?

Remember that xine looks for ~/.lircrc while mythtv looks for
~/.mythtv/lircrc.  I just made one of them a symlink to the other, works
great.

-- 
James Orr <james at orrwhat.net>