[mythtv-users] lirc and Xine

[Steven Cruysberghs]

this is my ~/.lircrc file for mplayer (with I use for mythvideo) and xine
(mythdvd)

I recomplied xine-lib and xine-ui myself to get lirc working.


>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "DanM" <dan at milkcarton.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:44 PM
>>
>>
>> > do you have something like
>> > begin
>> >   prog = xine
>> >   button = Play
>> >   config = Play
>> > end
>> >
>> > in your .lircrc file?
>> >
>> > -dan
>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "malcolm" <mythtv at lds.dyndns.org>
>>>Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 10:48 PM
>>
>> Dan, I have that type of .lircrc file in ~ but I noticed while watching
>> /var/log/lircd that Xine is not even connecting to the lircd daemon.
>> When
> I
>> fire up Myth or mplayer I see a "client connected" in /var/log/lircd.
>> I'm
>> using the default xine that came with Mandrake 10.0.  Is there a command
>> line option to tell Xine to use lirc?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Malcolm
>
> OK I got Myth's native lirc support working and I got lirc working with
> mplayer like this:
> mplayer -lircconf ~/.mythtv/lirc-mplayer (used google to figure out
> contents
> of lirc-mplayer)
>
> Xine however is not even connecting to lircd.  I can check /var/log/lircd
> and check that.  I finally decided perhaps my xine that comes with
> Mandrake
> 10.0 might not be compiled with lirc support.  So I downloaded xine-lib
> and
> xine-gui source and compiled my own.  While compling xine-gui I got this
> while running ./configure
>
> 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
>
> Now that leads me to believe xine has found all the lirc libraries and
> will
> compile with lirc support right?
> "./configure --help" only shows an option to disable compiling lirc
> support.
> Nothing to enable it.
> Yet even after compiling my own xine-lib and xine-gui it still does not
> even
> connect to the lircd and I see no traces of it in the logs
> (/var/log/lircd).
>
> I also saw on the web that if you get errors about lirc when starting up
> Xine that you can use -L to disable support for it.  So I shutdown lircd
> and
> rmmod lirc_i2c and lirc_dev.  Now I have NO lirc stuff running.  I fire up
> Xine and no errors or complaints about lirc not been there.
>
> I'm at a loss here.  What's the trick to xine and lirc?
>
> Thanks
> Malcolm
>
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