[MPlayer-users] Lirc Mplayer and WinTV Nova-T

[Ulrich Schweitzer]

On Sunday 21 November 2004 16:15, raid517 wrote:
> As I said in my previous post I did a little research and found a site
> that provided two files which I appear to need:
>
> http://staff.dstc.edu.au/croy/mythtv/lircd.conf
>
> and
>
> http://staff.dstc.edu.au/croy/mythtv/lircrc
>
> for lirc and my TV card. These are the correct versions for my card.
> (WinTV Nova-T). But Mplayer gives no clue *where* to put them. My home
> directory is simply /home/raid517 so should I just place these files in
> /home/raid517?

As I said in my previous post, you need to put .lircrc into your home 
directory and lircd.conf into /etc. I assume that you have root access to 
the machine, but you need that for lircd anyways.

lircd.conf has to correspond to your *remote control*. You wrote that you 
have a WinTV Nova-T. I assume that this is a TV capture card. Does it 
come with a remote? If so, the above lircd.conf might be correct 
(although it says "Hauppauge WinTV Nexus" in the header). Also, you wrote 
that you read somewhere to "Make lircd take it's input from 
/dev/input/event0 by passing it --device=/dev/input/event0". I said that 
this was not necessary but I might have been wrong. When you start lircd, 
try starting it by calling "lircd --device=/dev/input/event0".

Next thing: .lircrc
The one the above link points to will do nothing with mplayer. Again: Read 
the link I provided to find out how to set up a .lircrc for mplayer. 
Since you seem to have no clue on how lirc works, you should probably 
start by reading the appropriate documentation on lirc.org:
http://www.lirc.org/html/configure.html
or at least the section on .lircrc:
http://www.lirc.org/html/configure.html#lircrc_format

Ulrich
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