[mythtv-users] IR remote for videos in /var/lib/mythvideos

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Wed Apr 19 11:41:02 UTC 2006


On Apr 19, 2006, at 5:21 AM, Joe Knapp wrote:

> Hi,
>
> New mythtv user here -- works well. One glitch is that when I'm
> watching a video podcast (an mp4, mov file or whatever) in
> /var/lib/mythvideos, the IR remote has no effect. Is this supposed to
> work? The remote works fine for mythtv-recorded videos, live tv and
> music playlists. Under video player settings it says the command is
> 'mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet -vo xv %s'.
>
> Setup is WinTV PVR-150
>

You are using mplayer to play your videos, and unless you have your  
remote set up to control it as well as Myth it will have no effect.

Myth recordings are using the internal player, which is controlled by  
Myth's remote interface.


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