[ATrpms-users] PVR350 remote not working in mythvideo

[Keith C]

On Nov 30, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Sdk wrote:

>> I have a PVR350 and I just upgraded to ivtv 0.40 to reap the benefits
>> of xv playback. I attempted to play back an xvid video through
>> mythvideo using mplayer and it worked, but my remote does not respond
>> at all in mythvideo. I symlinked .lircrc to ./mythtv/lircrc like it
>> says in Jarods tips and tricks, but that doesnt help. I have the
>> entries for mplayer in ./mythtv/lircrc and I can post the contents of
>> the file if necessary, although its the same as on Jarod's site.
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> [mythtv at localhost ~]$ pwd
>> /home/mythtv
>> [mythtv at localhost ~]$ ls -l .lircrc
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 mythtv mythtv 14 Nov 29 22:08 .lircrc -> .mythtv/lircrc
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>>
>>
>> Sounds like your MPlayer was compiled without LIRC support.
>
>> Mike
>
> I originally asked the above question on mythtv-users, but the
> response I got was that mplayer was compiled without LIRC support. I
> really doubt that, as I followed Jarod's guide and used ATRPMS. Is
> there a way I can confirm whether or not the mplayer from ATRPMS was
> installed without LIRC support?
>

I use mplayer from atrpms and LIRC works fine.

# smart query --installed mplayer
Loading cache...
Updating cache...                
######################################## [100%]

mplayer-4:1.0-49_pre7try2.rhfc4.at at i386

Thinking....

Do you have mythfrontend launching with sudo, and then it launches  
mplayer, which is then looking in /root for .lircrc?

Maybe.

Keith C