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I've been updating all of my frontends recently (I only do this |
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occasionally) and discovered a major flaw with media-video/mpv and |
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figured I should warn others. |
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As of version 0.9.0 mpv has removed all lirc support. |
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Those of us stuck with older remotes (or in my case I use irexec to do |
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other things with the remote besides sending keypresses to whatever has |
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focus) there's no longer any way to control mpv any more. |
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Their answer is to use evdev, but I can't as I use irexec: |
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"Very unclean code, the inability to test it, and availability of |
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supposedly better methods." [1] |
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I also noticed that mplayer2 is gone from the tree, which is too bad, |
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I'd much prefer it without updates versus a player that can't be |
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controlled with a remote. |
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I guess I'm going to have to switch back to mplayer and hope whatever |
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issue I had with it way back when has been resolved. Or maybe just go |
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back to xbmc's internal player. I dunno. |
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mpv was a good player but it's going to become rather useless for quite |
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a few people. |
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Dan |
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[1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/1866 |
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