Some advice please on playback via telnet

[willplaice]

Hey guys...

I am tring to integrate my NMT with my automation kit, I have sucessfully got telnet access, and am playing around with mono...

Is there an easy way to load files and have transport control, or is there a differnet app to mono that would be easier to work with ?

many thanks for your comments, Will

[gettler]

willplaice Wrote:Is there an easy way to load files and have transport control, or is there a differnet app to mono that would be easier to work with ?

For mvpmc I am using the following command lines:

audio: /bin/mono -audio -prebuf 100 -bgimg -single FILENAME -dram 1

video: /bin/mono -single -nogui FILENAME -dram 1

DVD: /bin/amp_test DIRECTORY --dfb:quiet -osd32 -bgnd:/bin/logo.jpg

Both mono and amp_test will react to commands from the remote control. So you will have to monitor /dev/lircd if you want to know the difference between mono exiting because the file ended, or because the user told it to stop.

Jon

[willplaice]

thanks for that....

I also don't want to use the Remote, can i mimic the remote strings ?

[gettler]

You can write the various remote key codes to /tmp/irkey to simulate commands from the remote. For example, 0xd4 will stop playback.

[draio]

gettler Wrote:You can write the various remote key codes to /tmp/irkey to simulate commands from the remote. For example, 0xd4 will stop playback.

That's great!!! ... but I've not been able to do it ... could you write here a simple example?

Thanks

[gettler]

Code:

# echo 212 > /tmp/irkey

I'm not sure why I got the instructions in hex, and then passed them on here as hex, since as far as I can tell the values must be in decimal. Anyway, the above command will cause mono to stop playback and exit.

I don't have a list of commands, but if you run code like the function below from mvpmc, you can find out what the codes are by pressing all the buttons while mono is running and noting what keypress values you get.

Code:

static int
monitor(pid_t pid)
{
    int i;
    char buf[128];
    struct sockaddr_un addr;
    int fd;

    addr.sun_family = AF_UNIX;
    strcpy(addr.sun_path, "/dev/lircd");

    if ((fd=socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
        perror("socket");
        return -1;
    }
    if (connect(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr)) == -1) {
        perror("connect");
        close(fd);
        return -1;
    }

    while (waitpid(pid, NULL, WNOHANG) == 0) {
        fd_set fds;
        struct timeval to;
        int key;

        FD_ZERO(&fds);
        FD_SET(fd, &fds);
        to.tv_sec = 0;
        to.tv_usec = 20000;

        if (select(fd+1, &fds, NULL, NULL, &to) > 0) {
            i=read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
            if (i==-1) {
                perror("read");
                break;
            };
            if (!i) {
                break;
            }
            buf[i] = '\0';
            key = atoi(buf);
            printf("keypress: %d\n", key);
        }
    }

    close(fd);

    return 0;

Jon

[draio]

Thank you ... really interesting...
I didn't be able to compile that program for nmt but i made this:

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/viewtopic.php?t=3208

[Foo Bar]

(04-18-2008 02:31 PM)draio Wrote:  Thank you ... really interesting...
I didn't be able to compile that program for nmt but i made this:

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/viewtopic.php?t=3208

Anything wrong with thread 3208? Iac't read that