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On Saturday 19 Sep 2015 07:41:22 Daniel Frey wrote: |
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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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You can head off to the attic and copy the <=0.9.0 version into a local |
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overlay, but eventually things would break as various libs and dependencies |
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move out of kilter. Since this is not a production workstation or public |
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facing server, you can leave it at that version and not update it until you |
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buy new hardware. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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