Hi Reinhard, sound very good, but vdr as root do not :-( do you think it is possible to use this or something else with an non root user? I think many use vdr with an special non root user, for example all which use gentoo. greetings mentox aka dominique Reinhard Nissl schrieb: > Hi, > > I was quite annoyed how I could operate my EPIA MII-6000E using a > LIRC remote. It was almost not possible to navigate through the > OSD in a fast way. > > The attached patch allows now to define timeouts and frequencies > for example in Make.config, so there is no need to patch every > VDR version. Furthermore, frequencies are now defined in unit 1/s > instead of the unit ms (which defined the period), making values > more intuitive. > > There's now an additional frequency which defines, how fast a > user is allowed to press the same button repeatedly. The > originally used REPEATDELAY allowed only 2.85 button presses per > second. > > On slow and busy machines like my EPIA it happened often that > several button presses were read by VDR in a single read, but > only the first one got processed. The code now reads only a > single button press from LIRC's socket, so button presses don't > get lost (although presses of the same button will be skipped as > the timeouts don't get reached). > > To make it less likely that button presses get processed in > chunks a further define allows to decrease the thread's niceness > which means to boost it's priority. This feature requires VDR to > be run as root. > > This is my setup which follows some common settings found in > mainboard bioses for keyboard repeat delay and frequency. > > >> #vdr >> REMOTE=LIRC >> LIRC_PUSHFREQ=64 # 1/s >> LIRC_REPEATDELAY=250 # ms >> LIRC_REPEATFREQ=32 # 1/s >> #LIRC_REPEATTIMEOUT=500 # ms >> #LIRC_RECONNECTDELAY=3000 # ms >> LIRC_PRIORITYBOOST=1 >> > > Bye. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
