[mythtv-users] Xine and LIRC

Harry Devine lifter89 at comcast.net
Thu Oct 18 21:26:15 UTC 2007


Alastair Kerr wrote:
> Harry Devine wrote:
>> I got my remote working in Myth, but when I try to watch videos that 
>> use xine, I can't get the xine splash screen to go away when I quit 
>> out of the video.  I tried adding the "xterm -geometry..." tip in the 
>> Wiki, but it didn't help.  The man page says that the -q will quit 
>> out back to Myth, but it doesn't appear to work.  I have my Back/Exit 
>> button in my lircrc file set to Quit, so I don't understand why xine 
>> won't quick back out to Myth.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> Harry
>>   
> to check:
>
> *  xine looks in ~/.lircrc not ~/.mythtv/lircrc
> Easiest to   ln -s ~/.mythtv/lircrc ~/.lircrc
>
> *  look at the xine keymap file ~/.xine/ for a fill list of values to 
> use in the config
> e.g.
> Pause {
>        key = space
>        modifier = none
> }
>
> Use Pause as the config value in lircrc not space
>
> * check if xine was compiled for use with lirc
>
> - Alastair
>
If I do a find for lircrc, it finds it in the following locations:
   /etc/lircrc
   /home/mythtv/.mythtv/lircrc
   /usr/share/doc/lirc-0.8.2/lircrc

Looking for .lircrc, it's found at: /home/mythtv/.lircrc. 

Where should I make the appropriate symlink, and to which lircrc file?

Thanks,
Harry


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