Re: [xine-user] some issues I've had with xine 0.9.0

[Siggi L. <si...@us...>]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, James wrote:

[...]
> | LIRC only applies to IR remote controls. Someone would have to add some
> | sort of control code so that a joystick ccould be used for this task.
> 
> The Afterstep window manager creates a UNIX domain socket in /tmp that
> you can use to communicate with it. Maybe if Xine had one too, external
> controls could communicate with Xine through this.
[...]
> This is also how XMMS seems to work.

That sounds like a pretty undesirable solution to me: every program has
its own socket for its own control protocol.

I know similar mechanisms from xscreensaver, xawtv and netscape/mozilla 
and it's very uncomfotable to set them all up separately...
The Right Thing(tm) would probably be some kind of remote control
standardm which is supported by many applications and control devices. The
former is true for LIRC and the latter can easily be fixed by adding a
joystick driver for LIRC. (Isn't there already one??)

Another, more standardized approach is getting xine'S CORBA interface back
working again. Any Volunteers?

Regards,
	Siggi