On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 07:32:56AM -0800, Ben Dash wrote: > I'm just finishing off a gentoo mythfrontend xBox and > am running into problems with lirc for the DVD remote.
I'm starting to wonder if maybe there isn't different versions of the dongle floating around. I bought just the dongle (loose) at a used-hardware store and programmed my everything-but-the-kitchen-sink remote to send RCA codes. I am able to move the mouse around on the screen and left-click using the navigation buttons, but the action buttons for play/stop/FF/REW didn't do anything. I use a USB keyboard with my XBox 99% of the time so I didn't bother chasing down the problem. Last night I decided I would see how the XBox plays DVDs natively. As with MythTV, I could navigate the DVD menu to select the subtitles, etc. and start the movie. And just like MythTV, the pause button didn't do what I expected. I found that *every* button on the remote (other than the navigation buttons) would cause the DVD to go back to the root menu. I don't think it was a case of having the wrong RCA emulation in the remote because (1) there's only one RCA code and (2) if it was sending the wrong codes the XBox should ignore it the same way any other IR-receiver ignores codes it doesn't understand. If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd suggest that Microsoft has "embraced and extended" the IR receiver so that it's only compatible with their transmitter. I guess the next step is to use the lirc snoop to see what codes the dongle is actually reporting. I could change the lircd mappings but that won't solve the native DVD player problem. BTW, it's really quite easy to make your own XBox<>USB converter cable. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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