Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mplayer
Ubuntu 7.04
Kernel 2.6.21.1
installed packages: joystick, jscalibrator, mplayer
description:
Analogue buttons break hot-keys or mplayer-keyboardinput in general because
mplayer thinks they are pressed all the time. The Joypad is configured
correctly as i checked in the jscalibrator tool. Axis 4 and 5 - the two anlog
shoulder buttons of my Gamecube controller - are in their apropriate deadzones
when nothing is pressed. Everything looks fine. When moving/pressing the
analogue controls around i notice that they land one very small step out of
their deadzones a VERY FEW times.
You might think it's a calibration problem, but it happens everytime if
i do the following steps:
1. Plug off your joystick (or in my case the adaper between JS and PC)
2. Plug it in
3. start mplayer (e.g.): ~$: mplayer somevideo.wmv
4. press some keyboard key
When pressing right, left, Q, ESC or some other common Hot-Key i get
terminal-messages like these:
No bind found for key 'JOY_AXIS4_MINUS'.-JOY_AXIS5_MINUS-RIGHT
No bind found for key 'JOY_AXIS4_MINUS'.-JOY_AXIS5_MINUS-LEFT
No bind found for key 'JOY_AXIS4_MINUS'.-JOY_AXIS5_MINUS-q
No bind found for key 'JOY_AXIS4_MINUS'.-JOY_AXIS5_MINUS-ESC
pressing on the close-button "X" of the video window does not work
either and results in this message:
No bind found for key 'JOY_AXIS4_MINUS'.-JOY_AXIS5_MINUS-CLOSE_WIN
pessing buttons on the joypad is looks like this:
No bind found for key 'JOY_AXIS4_MINUS'.-JOY_AXIS5_MINUS-JOY_UP
No bind found for key 'JOY_AXIS4_MINUS'.-JOY_AXIS5_MINUS-JOY_BTN6
No bind found for key 'JOY_AXIS4_MINUS'.-JOY_AXIS5_MINUS-JOY_BTN1
Mysteriously when stopping mplayer and starting it again: ~$: mplayer
somevideo.wmv
and the problem will disappear. The problem will also disappear, if i start
jscalibrator first.
About analogue shoulder buttons:
I had similar problems some years ago in Windows, because some apps didn't know
about the analogue shoulder button concept, or maybe the driver was not that
good.
The problem is, that analogue-buttons are usually mapped/interpreted as
analogue axes by many apps. The axis usually have a non-standard
calibration-setup e.g. in my case:
axis-min: 24
axis-center: 24
axis-max: 220
Because an analogue controller might send some noise an app might (for
the example above) interpret a 23 as a very high axis-min value.
I think Mplayer seems to be affected by this problem, even if i can't
explain why it won't happen when starting mplayer a second time. I don't
know about what input-types the joystick interface provides but i assume
analogue buttons are always mapped to axes and an application has to
interpret it right.
More info on my joypad:
For my axis/button 4 and 5 jscalibrator shows the following deadzone values:
JOY_AXIS4: 20-28 (when pressing the button, it never lands out of the zone
after release)
JOY_AXIS5: 20-24 (when pressing the button, it some times lands 1-2 digits
above and NEVER below !)
Both Buttons never go below the value: 23
Soluton:
if( abs($axis_min - $axis_center) much much smaller than abs($axis_max -
$axis_center))
$axis_values below $axis_center should be ignored to prevent
misinterpretation.
** Affects: mplayer (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Joypad with analogue buttons breaks keyboard input
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121846
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