[mythtv-users] lirc and Xine

[Michael A. Howell]

Thanks for the all of the input - I tried the ln -s ~/.mythtv/lircrc
~/.lircrc command and it still does not work.  Am I missing something?

Mike
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Malcolm" <mythtv at lds.dyndns.org>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] lirc and Xine


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jarod Wilson" <jcw at wilsonet.com>
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 11:31 PM
>
> >>> All,
> >>> I am having trouble getting Xine to work with my haupgrey remote.  I
> > downloaded Jarrod's lircrc->>haupgrey.txt file and the file works
> > perfectly.
> > I want to use Xine for DVD playback, so I >>searched the archives and
> > found
> > some txt to add to this file that should run Xine as well - but Xine
> > >>does
> > not respond to the remote whatsoever.  I have included my file below.
> > Please let me know >>if I am missing something here.
> >>>
> >>> BTW - I did after adding the Xine commands to Jarrod's file above I
> >>> did
> > move it to the proper >>place with the following command:  mv
> > lircrc-haupgrey.txt ~/.mythtv/lircrc
> >
> >>> Any help would be appreciated
> >
> > I can't get my remote working with Xine either.  It's my understanding
> > that
> > Myth uses ~/.mythtv/lircrc and Xine uses ~/.mythtv/.lircrc (notice the
> > . ).
> > Anyhow I'd also be very interested in knowing how to get lirc to work
> > with
> > Xine and mplayer.
>
> >>Not quite. Like Dan said, Xine (and mplayer) look for ~/.lircrc. Just
> >>"ln -s ~/.mythtv/lircrc ~/.lircrc" and all will be happy, sharing the
> >>same config file.
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
>
> Jarod,  I thought I also tried ~/.lircrc but maybe I had something else
> wrong at the time and will give it a try again.  If both xine and mplayer
> look at ~/.lircrc then is there a way to have them both work off the that
> one file?
> I use mplayer for MythVideo and xine for MythDVD.  I'm not just trying to
be
> difficult either :) here's why.
>
> Xine supports the menus under MythDVD.
> Xine however errors out when exiting MythVideo.  I then have to get the
> mouse and click on the errors which I can't hardly read on the TV.  Xine
> does not error out when exiting if you just play it normally on the
monitor
> without Myth.  Mplayer has no errors when exiting MythVideo but does not
> support DVD menus for MythDVD.
>
> Thanks
> Malcolm
>
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