I've been using the unofficial mplayer32-bin for months in my AMD64 MythTV setup. However it has been superseded by the official mplayer-bin in portage. I have therefore installed mplayer-bin-1.0_pre7-r2, but it seems there is no lirc support in mplayer-bin. This means I can no longer stop a movie when I watch it on my TV. I have to kill it remotely. I cannot use the regular mplayer in my MythTV setup, because of the lack of codecs for some video files. Since lirc support is vital for me, I would like to see it added. If there is anything I can do, please ask. # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=k8 -fomit-frame-pointer -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks moo sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.tiscali.nl/pub/mirror/gentoo" LINGUAS="nl en_GB" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 S3TC X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amarok apm arts asterisk audiofile avi bash-completion bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cddb cdparanoia cdr chroot crypt css cups dedicated dga dio dmx dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread edl emul-linux-x86 encode evo exif fame fbcon fbdev festival ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gcj gd gif gphoto2 graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal icq ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 ipv6 irmc ithreads jabber java javascript joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdepim lcd lcms libcaca libclamav lirc live lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzo lzw mad mbox mbrola mcal mime mjpeg mng motif mozcalendar mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mpi mplayer msn musicbrainz mysql mythtv nas ncurses net nethack network nls nowin nptl nptlonly nvidia oav objc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pda pdf pdflib perl pic plotutils png posix ppds python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real rtc samba sasl sdl session smime sms speex spell ssl stream subp subversion svg tcltk tetex tga theora threads tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts usb userlocales utf8 v4l v4l2 vcd vcdimager videos visualization vorbis winbind wmf xine xmms xosd xpm xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yv12 zlib zvbi linguas_nl linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
I can build in support, but I cannot test it, because I do not have a compatible remote controller. I'll look into it. There's also the matter of added libs to the emul-linux-x86 set. It will take some time. Are you willing to test a version with lirc in an overlay?
I can test it with my remote control, no problem. Something I would like to mention: There is a lirc USE flag. If you do not want everyone to have lirc support, you could maybe use this flag. Then again, maybe it would be too much trouble (like having 2 different mplayer-bin packages) and it might be easier to simply enable it for all. Thanks
Unfortunately, USE flags don't really apply to binaries, because they're already built. I'll look into lirc.
How is the status of this bug? Do you have time to whip something up for me to test? I reverted back to the unofficial mplayer32-bin after I posted this bug, so I have been able to use my machine just fine, but I guess not everyone will be able to find this (I think it is removed from the website I downloaded it) and eventually I will have to switch. Thanks
I have the exact same trouble as you with mythtv and mplayer-bin with no lirc support. I've just told my roomates not to add wmv movies for now and I'm just using the 64 bit mplayer. I'm more than willing to test this in an overlay if a build is created with lirc.
Okay, there's an overlay here: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dang/mplayer-bin-lirc-overlay.tar.bz2 I don't have any kind of lirc device, so I have no idea if mixing bitness of lirc will work. Theoretically, it should be fine, because it uses a unix domain socket, but we'll see. You will need full 64-bit lirc installed (and mplayer-bin will dep on it if you have the lirc USE flag set). Please test and report back here.
I am happy to report that there were no problems _whatsoever_ using the overlay and I now have an official mplayer-bin _with_ lirc support! Thanks!
Cool. I'll add it to the tree.
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works great for me too.
