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VLC 3.0 activates hardware decoding as default. This has caused me to waste several hours and to experiment with several alternatives when two of my video DVDs showed a green flashing screen as the videos played. Earlier versions of VLC worked fine - but hardware decoding was disabled by default. Wh...

Jean-Baptiste Kempf ANY USB footpedal - they work the same with perhaps different codes; but take the thread's subject line - VEC Infinity USB foot pedals, which are porobably the most common. It may be "easy to activate the http requests and binds the keys of the pedal" but how many peopl...

Actually I was working on the principle that VLC is a popular application that people want to use in a particular mode - 1500+ people, according to the interest shown in this thread. And yes, I frequently work for nothing for my customers, but in this case I would have expected the developer to be p...

A few dollars to vastly improve a product? Hmm. Approx $50 new, far less second-hand. You seem to be making the assumption that VLC users are technical people who know what X11 events are (amongst other things). This is not so: I suspect most users of VLC are exactly that: users. Not knowing what X1...

Over 1500 responses to this thread and still no action from VLC. I would suggest the number indicates a lot of interest in this topic. I spent some time working on the project. I managed to get pedal-pushes from the USB pedal and then ran out of time, but from that excercise it is obvious that anyon...

Sorry, I meant to add:

nasfarley88 - if you get past the bash script stage I'd be interested in checking it out!

Keep us posted!

How is it that Express Scribe can do this? It requires only that I plug in the foot pedal and then run ES - that's it!

Surely VLC can manage that?

I still have not found a solution to this. I see no reason why VLC could not provide a solution, though. All it should take is someone who has a bit more knowledge about how linux works than I do. As far as I can work out, the problem is reading the pedal via a HID and converting the result to a key...

Thanks for the xev idea but it failed to respond to any actions of the footpedal. Following up on an idea from elsewhere I used cat /dev/usb/hiddev0 and saved the result to a file. Difficult to decipher what the result should be with 24 bytes per action. I did try to enter a code into the Hotkeys bu...

Thanks. Looking into xev now. Well, I would be but my wife has snatched back the footpedal to do some work.

Dave

Thanks for your help. I know what you mean but I'll have to delve into linux rather more to fully understand. I was hoping it would work as simply as Express Scribe, which I only had to install and which then had a panel that allowed me to set up the pedal codes. Ah, well. :( I'll plug away at HID a...

Thanks for the reply.

I have spent some time trying to work out how to do this but cannot make it work. Can you point me at a suitable procedure, please? Possibly also to a tool that can read the incoming codes from a HID device?

Thanks
Dave

Am I to assume VLC cannot manage a simple USB foot pedal?

This seems a very low-tech issue to have escaped from such versatile software. Surely there must be a simple solution?

I'm running VLC 1.1.13 on Ubuntu Lucid (this can be updated if it will solve the problem). If I run Express Scribe it immediately picks up the USB foot pedal and it takes ten seconds to tell Scribe which pedal is which (play, rewind, forward). I have spent a LONG time spread over the past couple of ...