On Saturday 19 Sep 2015 07:41:22 Daniel Frey wrote: > I've been updating all of my frontends recently (I only do this > occasionally) and discovered a major flaw with media-video/mpv and > figured I should warn others. > > As of version 0.9.0 mpv has removed all lirc support. > > Those of us stuck with older remotes (or in my case I use irexec to do > other things with the remote besides sending keypresses to whatever has > focus) there's no longer any way to control mpv any more. > > Their answer is to use evdev, but I can't as I use irexec: > > "Very unclean code, the inability to test it, and availability of > supposedly better methods." [1] > > I also noticed that mplayer2 is gone from the tree, which is too bad, > I'd much prefer it without updates versus a player that can't be > controlled with a remote. > > I guess I'm going to have to switch back to mplayer and hope whatever > issue I had with it way back when has been resolved. Or maybe just go > back to xbmc's internal player. I dunno. > > mpv was a good player but it's going to become rather useless for quite > a few people. > > Dan > > [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/1866
You can head off to the attic and copy the <=0.9.0 version into a local overlay, but eventually things would break as various libs and dependencies move out of kilter. Since this is not a production workstation or public facing server, you can leave it at that version and not update it until you buy new hardware. -- Regards, Mick
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