Adam Charrett wrote: > On Fri, July 18, 2008 12:34 pm, Matthew Job wrote: > >> thanks for the reply Adam but unfortunately it does the same thing with >> vlc,mplayer or xine. >> >> If I load a channel, and then press c or v to change the channels up or >> down, the media player accepts the input and not freevo >> >> I am using freevo 1.8.1 on ubuntu 8.04 >> Is there any way to set a flag when running freevo to see what keyboard >> events are occuring or any vlc/xine/mplayer options i need to configure in >> loca_config.py? >> > > I'm guessing your running X? If so then I don't believe there is an easy > way out of this as the keyboard events will be sent to the in focus > window, ie the player. > The only way to control the players when in X is using a remote control > (lirc/bluetooth phone/etc) that goes direct to freevo. I have similar > problems when developing the code, I had to keep dragging freevo off to > one side and making sure it had focus to allow it to get the keyboard > presses. > > Cheers > > Adam > > I thought this was supposed to work by using the --slave command for mplayer and xine has a similar option but I don't know it off the top of my head. It tells them to listen on stdin and freevo should pass the commands it receives to it? Maybe I'm wrong, I've been running freevo on directfb or else as the dm with X.
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