[MPlayer-users] -display localhost:0.1 breaks lirc

[Mike White]

Hi everyone,

Here's an interesting bug:

I have a cheapo NVidia 440 MX card with TV-out that i have running to my 
TV.  I've configured X so that screen 1 (DISPLAY=localhost:0.1) is the 
TV and screen 0 is my monitor.  My plan is to have mythtv running in the 
background all the time and not affecting my use of the computer.  This 
works great, i can go:

mplayer -fs -display localhost:0.1 foo.avi

or

DISPLAY=localhost:0.1
mplayer -fs foo.avi

and video plays on the TV just fine.


Additionally, i can play a movie to the default X screen:

mplayer -fs foo.avi

and i can control it (pause, play, stop) with my remote control, 
homebrew IR adapter, and lirc.

BUT, when i play on the TV, lirc just hangs.  I run the 'irw' lirc event 
snooper, and when playing to screen 0, i can see the remote control 
events, but when i play to screen 1, no events show up!

This appears to be a bug in mplayer since it works fine with xine:

DISPLAY=localhost:0.1
xine -f foo.avi

(I can use my RC to control xine's video output on the TV.)


I don't want to use xine because xine sucks and mplayer rocks. :)
Help!

Mike