[mythtv-users] Re: Remote stops working after MythVideo stops

[Jarod C. Wilson]

On Thursday, Jun 19, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:

> On Thursday 19 June 2003 21:30, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:
>> I'm running MythTV under RHL9, with a WinTV PVR-250 (grey remote).
>> Everything works great, except that when I play back a movie in
>> MythVideo, when it either ends, or I stop it, I cease to have any
>> remote control functionality. If I hit escape on the keyboard hooked 
>> to
>> the machine, I get back use of the remote... Anyone else run into this
>> problem? If it matters (I doubt it should), the movies are being 
>> played
>> off a samba share.
>
> This might be a focus issue.  Check your window manager setup.  What 
> version
> of Myth are you running?

I don't think focus is the issue. Pressing the escape key on the 
keyboard and pressing the key on the remote bound to escape should be 
functionally equivalent, regardless of window focus. Escape is escape, 
so they ought to do the same thing. For reference, I'm running MythTV 
0.9.1, atop KDE 3.1/RHL9.

>> Also, is there a way to pause movie playback in MythVideo? The pause
>> that works for MythTV does nothing... Do I need to configure something
>> in mplayer?
>
> I believe the default pause key for MPlayer is 'space'.  If you have 
> one of
> your remote keys bound to 'space', that should work.  Or, you could 
> always
> change MPlayer's keybinding to 'P' so it's the same as Myth.

Aha. Okay, pressing my OK button (bound to 'space'), which is normally 
the select button in MythTV, does pause mplayer. I'll dig around in 
mplayer's settings to see if I can remedy that.

My best guess at the moment is that mplayer isn't properly releasing 
control of the remote, but I'll poke around some more...

Thank you,
-jcw