[MPlayer-users] Re: lirc & GUI / special keys

[Jason Lunz]

moritz at bunkus.org said:
> I'm not THAT dumb. I already know about seeking, but what I want is to
> sit on my bed and use the GUI's file open dialog to select the next
> file to play with my remote. So what I need is the ability to emulate
> 'cursor down', 'cursor up' and 'enter'. Or are there other ways to
> select a file to be played without a keyboard?

yes. I wrote a little python daemon to do this, and it works really
well:

http://orr.falooley.org/pub/tvd.tar.gz

let me know if you need help getting it to work.

Jason