[mythtv-users] Looking for clarity on MythTV, to LIRC, or not to LIRC, ir-keytable, and key mappings

[Eric Sharkey]

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Preston Crow
<pc-mythtv08a at crowcastle.net> wrote:
> The main reason to use LIRC instead of configuring the remote to send
> keystrokes directly is that with LIRC you can have different configurations
> for different applications.

This is really unnecessary for most applications.  Generally you want
to configure the application, not some layer above it.  Applications
like mplayer and mythtv have full support for binding arbitrary keys
to arbitrary commands in their configuration, so another layer to do
that kind of mapping is really superfluous.

Eric