[MPlayer-users] lirc issue

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 30 November 2002, Banu Cosmin wrote:
> 	Hi!

Hi.
 
> 	The past few days i have been trying to set up a proper rpm for
> lirc-0.6.5.
> 	I have downloaded a package from the net which contained all files
> from the lirc package. I have split up the package in a lirc package and
> two subpackages: lirc-devel and lirc-libs. You can see how they are
> structured from the attached spec file. The thing is: mplayer requests
> for building the presence of lirc-devel package, my question being: what
> does mplayer need to be in that package for building and what does it
> need in order to run with lirc enabled.

Frankly: I'm not sure. I've never had access to any RC devices.

> 	Don't get me wrong. I am not asking this in order to make a usable
> lirc package, because the one i've build behaves gracefully. The thing is
> that if i install lirc, lirc-libs and lirc-devel, when i rebuild the 
> mplayer-0.90-pre10 source package, passing it the "--with lirc" option, i 
> obtain the mplayer packages which installed do not "react" to the config 
> strings passed by lirc (i'm 100% sure that it's working ok). Running it
> from the console i get "Setting up lirc support..." which tells me that
> it's all ok... but nothing happens. I am also providing the .lircrc file,
> just in case.

I see that's the package from freshrpms.net. I've looked at it once and it
seems to lack support for many devices. However, a full rpm build log would
be useful for determining if the fault lies within my MPlayer RPM or in
that lirc package.

> 	btw: i use the serial lirc driver for homebrew receiver; i compile
> mplayer with the default settings, passing it only the "--with lirc"
> option (however, shouldn't mplayer detect it by default?).

Nope. The other developers and I agreed on a certain set of features that
are enabled. The rest is not included to limit the number of package
dependencies until mplayer is more modular.

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