LIRC support for MPlayer written by Andreas Ackermann in 2/2001 contact: acki@acki-netz.de o What is LIRC? Linux Infrared Remote Control - use an easy to build home-brewn IR-receiver, an (almost) arbitrary remote control and control your linux box with it! More about it at www.lirc.org. o MPlayer and LIRC If you have installed the lirc-package, you can compile MPlayer with LIRC support using ./configure --enable-lirc If everything went fine, MPlayer will print a message like LIRC init was successful. on startup. If an error occurs it will tell you. If it doens't tell you anything about LIRC there's no support compiled in. That's it :-) The application name for MPlayer is - oh wonder - mplayer_lirc. It understands the following commands: PAUSE - pause playing. Any other keystroke will continue replay. QUIT - exit mplayer RWND - 10 secs back FRWND - 60 secs back FWD - skip 10 secs FFWD - skip 60 secs INCVOL - increase volume one percent DECVOL - decrease volmue one percent MASTER - use master mixer channel PCM - use pcm mixer channel Don't forget to enable the repeat flag for RWND/FWD in .lircrc. Here's an excerpt from my .lircrc: begin remote = CU-SX070 prog = mplayer_lirc button = Tape_Play repeat = 1 config = FFWD end begin remote = CU-SX070 prog = mplayer_lirc button = Tape_Stop config = QUIT end I you don't like the standard location for the lirc-config file (~/.lircrc) use the -lircconf switch to specify another file. Enjoy -Andreas