From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF63C1384AE for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 08:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A36D21C057; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 08:22:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DF57B21C034 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 08:22:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wicfx3 with SMTP id fx3so89025394wic.1 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:22:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=FLSXongLvb6zUU619PzvjVfYJ8mBY0eaxg2DNS2cGYY=; b=BvryArkhqviTzkMCEJURzETFyRMJFLsah7qxUJmX9ikGRKq70VwzxIRBq2gAExf9hg F7Y0PHoMhkLBph6+7FdLhPkch6gr8fCMHOEfULzBc9kVGoiWXKwCd/lUnrYR5t6bURvS 1VBp4xxV9NMXaWs/wql6ujKn9TzHih8Rpq0wknshnIxXgY7iSdpPrlWZzhzi8WQTdzzt HAqF7NYb9wpoYxEvAHxlZMN43qQaTSu8B90gk8VuHBJZ2qAqZdne4FDSpuWbisWO3dzV pAqlQ5AxPk9v4daCk3kWY3umcRwCXpkGbCh6nut+zOZ9jhgEiKml3WO+KjUvfoqn/7uc LX0Q== X-Received: by 10.180.8.3 with SMTP id n3mr2501819wia.41.1442650973610; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:22:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id jw9sm12844165wjb.28.2015.09.19.01.22.52 for (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 19 Sep 2015 01:22:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 09:22:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) References: <55FD0392.2030908@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <55FD0392.2030908@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3674580.cVJ0iQgiQG"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201509190922.49213.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 996886e5-55f9-4783-903f-216f2d8094c9 X-Archives-Hash: be1def255a41a72734813ecd61828b43 --nextPart3674580.cVJ0iQgiQG Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 19 Sep 2015 07:41:22 Daniel Frey wrote: > I've been updating all of my frontends recently (I only do this > occasionally) and discovered a major flaw with media-video/mpv and > figured I should warn others. >=20 > As of version 0.9.0 mpv has removed all lirc support. >=20 > Those of us stuck with older remotes (or in my case I use irexec to do > other things with the remote besides sending keypresses to whatever has > focus) there's no longer any way to control mpv any more. >=20 > Their answer is to use evdev, but I can't as I use irexec: >=20 > "Very unclean code, the inability to test it, and availability of > supposedly better methods." [1] >=20 > I also noticed that mplayer2 is gone from the tree, which is too bad, > I'd much prefer it without updates versus a player that can't be > controlled with a remote. >=20 > I guess I'm going to have to switch back to mplayer and hope whatever > issue I had with it way back when has been resolved. Or maybe just go > back to xbmc's internal player. I dunno. >=20 > mpv was a good player but it's going to become rather useless for quite > a few people. >=20 > Dan >=20 > [1] https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/1866 You can head off to the attic and copy the <=3D0.9.0 version into a local=20 overlay, but eventually things would break as various libs and dependencies= =20 move out of kilter. Since this is not a production workstation or public=20 facing server, you can leave it at that version and not update it until you= =20 buy new hardware. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart3674580.cVJ0iQgiQG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAABCAAGBQJV/RtZAAoJELAdA+zwE4Yex44H/A2Oc4uf/6YVkySpeOjTLtaY RaHOKDMQkGnZf6DNY5ypiIZoVu0i6m2haP4SViv740KM0bu5i9GkcUEFEGSdOLjR MhW2KWKDC3oYZk2yw1XJx0+0WmurKC2U09zfiHC1nqCuA1RZzjhlhRSykiOSLSB+ nmv3OprXCK61s3x0k4EXBuV8CICcbjTh1Q3JXSJvm9vp/DcWz1SipfI126879zQL px39YsklacKoXhVzYEmF4Yq2xJTW6fT+p+LSDokEOCFhr1jGtWBmFeGjH8XwHYb6 3s5EiX6QDxfSy/k4134AVBr0HdIH6m5qtLuQsbKGRJkLkrdRN3HA3WqPI0Zypzk= =ZZZG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3674580.cVJ0iQgiQG--