Re: see damnet...i am not the only one...please someone explain mplayer

[Bjorn B. <d00...@dt...>]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Karl vom Dorff wrote:

> I just followed the example that mplayer gives in his documentation, except 
> i switched the name of the remote to the name of the remote i made in my 
> lircd.conf, and changed the keys so they correspond...
> So i believe from the example i should have play and stop and a couple 
> others....
> Could you explain how this should be set up, and how would i for instance, 
> launch a program using the .lircrc?

Your ~/.lircrc should look as described in
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/#lirc

Then your should just have to launch mplayer.


> But first I would have to get the remote to work with mplayer, because for 
> now all i get is that it can't connect to the socket and that i won't be 
> able to use the remote...

Can you paste the actual output from mplayer?


> what does ircat do?

Assuming that your .lircrc file is set-up according to the mplayer docs

$ ircat mplayer

should print the config strings as they would be sent to mplayer when you
press the buttons on your remote.

/Bjorn