[mythtv-users] Mapping of play button on my remote

[E. Westbrook]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 05:17, Frans Grotepass <fmgrotepass at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> CTRL+P is not explained in the key bindings link on the wiki.
>

Well, perhaps not quite directly so... but there are indeed bread crumbs to
follow.  For me, the key clue was hiding in this page of default key
bindings:

http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html

Under "Watching TV or a Recording", in the explanation of the P binding, is
this elusive little nugget of wisdom:

You may also add an explicit keybinding for 'Play' through MythWeb,
> returning you to normal speed if you are in slow motion, rewind fast forward
> or pause mode.


In my case, when I went to my mythweb key binding settings, I found that
CTRL+P was already bound to the correct play operation.  I never added that
myself, so I have to speculate that it must be (or must have been) a
default.  But I wouldn't have known had I not investigated.

In any case, with that binding already there, I only had to modify my LIRC
mapping for the play button, assigning it to send CTRL+P instead of P.


> Does this do a forced play in both situations? In that case it is the
> required behaviour.
>

It certainly does, for me anyway.

To the list:  Is there any reason this mapping shouldn't be the default (if
it's not), and as such, added to the above link and perhaps elsewhere?

This seems like such a natural user expectation of playback control
behavior, to me anyway, that unless I'm missing something, I think it should
definitely be "normal" and "default".

>
> Indeed, it is required for WAF += 1;
>

Quite so, around these parts anyway. :)

$0.02,
EW
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