WinLIRC support

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

MCE support might come in a month or two. I suspect I'll just end up having to buy one.

How much is it?

[dukey]

not terribly expensive
£12 off ebay

[dukey]

You are the one that retook WinLIRC?

Does it work with MCE now?

Mostly, yes.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

You are the one that retook WinLIRC?

Does it work with MCE now?

Mostly, yes.

Nice.
So now, I should move my *ss and make the integration?

[dukey]

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

The only values that are really of concern are the button name, + repeat count. The IR code is not really useful for end applications. The end application just needs some XML file or something to map between button name -> action inside program. So for VLC something might be added to the hotkeys sections.

http://winlirc.sourceforge.net/developer.html

[Nuwanda]

So now, I should move my *ss and make the integration?

Awesome

Now that the WinLIRC project is active again and supports current USB remotes (like Streamzap, the one I have), it would be great if VLC had support for it

[LGoosens]

Hi,

Now that the WinLIRC project is active again and supports current USB remotes (like Streamzap, the one I have), it would be great if VLC had support for it

I second that. I'm eagerly hoping for WinLIRC support to arrive to VLC some day. (I'm also waiting for WinLIRC to become more reliable, running as an NT service, but that's a different discussion. )

I think the modular designs of both VLC and (Win)LIRC can fit snugly together: using modules through which servers and clients talk to each other makes integration and configuration of just about anything easy (albeit often not in a very GUI-ish fashion).

Now, on to a more current question: what software is available, at this point, for interfacing WinLIRC to VLC (in lieu of a direct interface like the one Media Player Classic - bleh - provides)?
I'm going to try out this piece of software (which simulates hotkey presses) soon, but I'm really looking for something more sturdy and advanced. I'm currently using my Logitech G11 programmable gaming keyboard for one-button VLC hotkeys, but the Logitech software s*cks performance-wise, and this approach is limited to things VLC provides hotkeys for.
Commands like "seek 50" (for skipping to the middle of the video) in the VLC console, or "--transform-type=hflip" (horizontal flip) through the VLC command line remain unavailable.

Is there anything out there that listens to WinLIRC and can send commands to VLC through one of its interfaces (Telnet, Console, etc.)?

BTW: I'm still a bit new to all the various VLC interfaces, and not fully aware of all the possibilities yet.

Regards, Lennart Goosens.

[ptbnfns]

+1 vote for WinLIRC.
it would be great!
why you care so much about proprietary M$ crap if we could have same results without it?

[locu]

So what's the status on WinLIRC now? after about 11 years of talking about adding WinLIRC-support, I still cannot find any kind of implementation. I just compiled VLC from the current sources and even there is no WinLIRC-support. I would try to write it myself, but I have to little knowledge of programming and I actually don't quite see through the source-code of VLC. Maybe it is possible to just use the existing lirc-module and modify it to work with WinLIRC, but I neither know how to do that nor how that module even only works.

It would be really nice if VLC would support WinLIRC. It's the only AV-Program I am using that does not support it.

[DGMurdockIII]

cant waite for this to be supported

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I said no already.

[joeuy]

Hello,
I would GREATLY appreciate WinLIRC support for VLC Windows port. Lirc and linux VLC work fine, but it is a sad deficiency in VLC under Windows.

It couldn´t be so hard to port lirc support to Windows version of VLC. I have seen source code for lirc+VLC, WinLirc and (Win)lirc+Mplayer and I think that for someone, who knows programming, it is a piece of cake.

Thanks a lot.
Albert

Needed this too, spent an hour of coding. its working perfect for me... hope it helps.
https://github.com/joeuy/VLC-WinLirc-adapter

If it does please star the project (it provides motivation for doing open source stuff)