[mythtv-users] Key mapping for Up and Down in video player?

[aaron]

On 10/30/07, Marc Sherman <msherman at projectile.ca> wrote:
> Is it possible to remap the up and down keys specifically for the
> internal video player? They don't currently (0.20.2) show up in the
> remap keys page in mythweb; I'm guessing that the internal player must
> be using the generic up and down mappings for those keys.

If you're referring to the way up/down map to jump back/forward while
watching recordings, it's my understanding that this is hard-coded. I
had to modify the source code to fix it. Unfortunately, I can never
remember where that code is, or exactly what I did to change it.

>
> I've got PgUp and PgDown swapped, because I find the defaults very
> unnatural -- pressing up (or channel+) maps to next chapter on most DVD
> players.

Totally agree! It was even more fun 4 or 5 years ago when that was
introduced (it used to work the intuitive way)... the keys weren't
customizable in those days so I had to go into the code and reverse
the behaviour that way.

The argument is that it's consistent with the way one jumps through a
document (pgup goes to a previous page, pgdn goes to the next page).
But I still find it backwards in the context of watching a video.

-- 
aaron

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