[MPlayer-users] whats lircc? lirc support problem

[Oscar Sundbom]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:19:29 +0100
Dano <rabinowich at zoznam.sk> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> 
> > ./configure --help | grep lirc
> >   --enable-lirc          enable LIRC (remote control) support 
> > [autodetect]
> >   --enable-lircc         enable LIRCCD (LIRC client daemon) input 
> > [autodetect]
> >
> > Perhaps ./configure --disable-lircc?  According to Google (you should 
> > try it
> > some time ;-)), lircc appears to be a client for LIRC that coordinates 
> > all
> > programs using LIRC - so they all connect to lircc instead.
> 
> I already have compiled mplayer with the option --disable-lircc, but i 
> have no lirc support in mplayer
> After running mplayer i get this:
> Setting up LIRC support...
> mplayer: could not connect to socket
> mplayer: No such file or directory
> Failed to open LIRC support

These messages appear to me as lircd hasn'ät been started and, therefore, mplayer can't open the socket it creates so communicate with software.

Are you sure you've started lircd (and set up everything before right, otherwise it might spontaneously die when
it gets its first call, iirc.)

If you _have_ started lircd and it works fine, i e with ircat, perhaps the socket's been placed somewhere different from what mplayer expects. In that case, I'd advice you try and find out where it's created.

Oscar