On Sunday 01 May 2005 18:41, Donavan Stanley wrote: > > The main advantages would be: > > 1. Not relying on an external program (irxevent). > > 2. When using irxevent, I think that only one program, > > the one with focus can receive the keyboard commands. > > When using native lirc mode, the keyboard command is > > directed to the correct application. > > Except that neither is really a downside since you already have > irxevent if you have lirc. Andhow often do you want a keypress to go > to something other than the main window? > > The advantages of NOT using native lirc are: > 1. You can use any app that accepts keyboard input without having to > worry about it supporting lirc. > 2. You can tie scripts to remote keys.
I already know that I need to be able to control xine as well as mythtv with the remote if it is to be useful. I gather from Donavan's comments that I can't have normal lirc running to control xine at the same time as mythtv native lirc to control mythtv? To control two apps you either need to hope/ensure that xine and mythtv use the same keys for the same type of activity (which they don't by default)? In addition, I need to find a trick so that my left and right button do "left" and "right" in the EPG but increase and decrease volume when watching TV (at least as long as I can find a way to make [ & ] have an impact on the volume (capture) whcih they don't at present). Well, i suppose you could call it a challenge! Simon _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users