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Well, it would be good :) LIRC for Linux and WinLIRC use the same protocol, so supporting one should support both. Essentially winlirc spits out the name of the button on a socket, with the format <code> <repeat count> <button name> <remote control name> Example: 0000000000eab154 00 play myremote Th...

You are the one that retook WinLIRC?

Does it work with MCE now?

Mostly, yes.

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Winlirc has had nearly a million downloads over the years, when the only receiver supported was a simple homebrew serial device ! Now we have support for other home brew receivers, my favourite is the one that connects to the microphone in on your sound card, as well as several other USB commercial ...

You are the one that retook WinLIRC? Yes And no MCE support yet. I don't have any MCE hardware. People are welcome to donate me some :) MCE support might be the hardest. People were installing custom or hacked drivers to make the MCE remote work on say XP as I believe they only worked with the medi...

It shouldn't be a big addition at all, in fact it should be relatively trivial to add. I've made some large changes to WinLIRC, it doesn't just support simple serial devices anymore, but commercial and USB devices. The plan is to try and support all the major remotes used on PCs, in a similar way LI...