boristheblade Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 I setup my Flirc for XBMC and everything works good except chapter change. All I see is 30 second skip. Is there away to get chapter change setup for XBMC or do I need to change it to keyboard? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris! Posted January 12, 2012 Report Share Posted January 12, 2012 Hi boristheblade, Welcome to the forums. I think at the moment the XBMC preset is to get people started as Jason is working hard on features (wake from sleep and other nifty functions) so hasn't made a comprehensive preset for XBMC (yet). I've been led to believe that "[" and "]" (i.e. open square bracket and close square bracket), are the shortcut for next and previous chapter (http://forum.xbmc.org/showpost.php?p=905337&postcount=151) I think you can just flip to keyboard preset and just program those two keys (without having to re-do the rest). Do you mind giving it a quick test and reporting back? Also, how are you finding FLIRC in general? Regards p7 (p.s. I liked the thread you started about CES on forum.xbmc.org - threw up some interesting stuff.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boristheblade Posted January 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 Hi boristheblade, Welcome to the forums. I think at the moment the XBMC preset is to get people started as Jason is working hard on features (wake from sleep and other nifty functions) so hasn't made a comprehensive preset for XBMC (yet). I've been led to believe that "[" and "]" (i.e. open square bracket and close square bracket), are the shortcut for next and previous chapter (http://forum.xbmc.or...7&postcount=151) I think you can just flip to keyboard preset and just program those two keys (without having to re-do the rest). Do you mind giving it a quick test and reporting back? Also, how are you finding FLIRC in general? Regards p7 (p.s. I liked the thread you started about CES on forum.xbmc.org - threw up some interesting stuff.) Thanks for getting back to me. I'll give the keyboard setup a try. I really like the Flirc. I have been wanting something like this for a while. I feel it gives us more control of our HTPC's. Thanks, hearing about new stuff at CES is something i always enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalb0y Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 If you're just trying to skip to the next playlist item, use comma (,) and period (.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanZan Posted October 21, 2012 Report Share Posted October 21, 2012 I'm stuck with this. The brackets merely skip forward and back 30 seconds. The comma and period/full stop buttons do the same but in 5 second increments. I tried editing the keyboard.xml and put "SkipNext" and "SkipPrevious" in for the brackets in the "FullScreenVideo" section but it only aped the comma and full stop keys. Is there no way I can have the two buttons on my remote (which look like two arrows pointing to a vertical line) jump to the next/previous item in a playlist or the next/previous chapter? I could do it with XBMC on my XBOX and that's ancient! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris! Posted October 21, 2012 Report Share Posted October 21, 2012 Hey VanZan, I took another look at it to check and what's been mentioned seems correct. Looking at the xbmc keyboard.xml file: https://github.com/x...ps/keyboard.xml <keyboard> <f>FastForward</f> <r>Rewind</r> <period>StepForward</period> <comma>StepBack</comma> <backspace>Fullscreen</backspace> <quote>SmallStepBack</quote> <opensquarebracket>BigStepForward</opensquarebracket> <closesquarebracket>BigStepBack</closesquarebracket> <return>OSD</return> <enter>OSD</enter> <m>OSD</m> <i>Info</i> <o>CodecInfo</o> <z>AspectRatio</z> <t>ShowSubtitles</t> <t mod="ctrl">SubtitleAlign</t> <l>NextSubtitle</l> <left>StepBack</left> <right>StepForward</right> <up>BigStepForward</up> <down>BigStepBack</down> <a>AudioDelay</a> <escape>Fullscreen</escape> <c>Playlist</c> <v>XBMC.ActivateWindow(Teletext)</v> <up mod="ctrl">SubtitleShiftUp</up> <down mod="ctrl">SubtitleShiftDown</down> <pageup>SkipNext</pageup> <pagedown>SkipPrevious</pagedown> </keyboard> From the XBMC wiki on action id's (i.e. what you can make the keyboard.xml do): bigstepforward = Big jump forward in playtime, or next chapter bigstepback = Big jumpbackward in playtime, or previous chapter http://wiki.xbmc.org...ll_Screen_Video Are you sure the video you're playing has chapters in it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanZan Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Hey Chris mate. It doesn't have chapters. I have a folder full of mp4 files and I brought up the context menu on the folder and selected "Play". I had hoped to quickly jump back and forward through the different mp4 files. I thought moving to the next/previous file in a playlist AND skipping to the next/previous chapter were one and the same! I hope I haven't wasted your time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris! Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Oh. No worries, we could probably figure that usage out so it's more like your old Xbox. I'll have a look when I'm next on my computer (only have my phone at work). See if we can't fiddle with the XML a bit more :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanZan Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Thanks Chris. I'm not blaming the Flirc. I think it's a limitation of XBMC and there's nothing that can be done. But I live in hope of your flirc skills! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris! Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Ha ha - thanks :) After further reading: The action id we're looking for is "skipnext" and "skipprevious" which skip to the next and previous playlist item (respectively). Looks like by default they're mapped to "page up" and "page down" keys <pageup>SkipNext</pageup> <pagedown>SkipPrevious</pagedown> Unfortunately skipnext only skips the whole file. And I can't think of way to combine the two functions - it seems you can only have one or the other :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burke Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Ha ha - thanks :) After further reading: The action id we're looking for is "skipnext" and "skipprevious" which skip to the next and previous playlist item (respectively). Looks like by default they're mapped to "page up" and "page down" keys Unfortunately skipnext only skips the whole file. And I can't think of way to combine the two functions - it seems you can only have one or the other :( I have not tried but have seen that there is beta firmware for long press then you can assign two different functions to same button - if I am not mistaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burke Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Hey Chris mate. It doesn't have chapters. I have a folder full of mp4 files and I brought up the context menu on the folder and selected "Play". I had hoped to quickly jump back and forward through the different mp4 files. I thought moving to the next/previous file in a playlist AND skipping to the next/previous chapter were one and the same! I hope I haven't wasted your time. Sorry my English is a bit rubbish, so just to be clear on what you mean. 1. When you say "next/previous chapter" that is during video playback? 2. "next/previous file in a playlis" is when browsing video/audio files or during playback of audio or video files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris! Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Hi Burke, The long press firmware doesn't enable you to assigned two different functions to the same button. I believe the aim of that firmware was for better scrolling. Both of the points were during playback. I think vanzan may be right. Something has changed in the XBMC software that means this isn't possible atm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burke Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Hi Burke, The long press firmware doesn't enable you to assigned two different functions to the same button. I believe the aim of that firmware was for better scrolling. Both of the points were during playback. I think vanzan may be right. Something has changed in the XBMC software that means this isn't possible atm. Sorry abut bad info Just one more question chapters is video, next/previus item also video or audio? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris! Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 In the default keymap.XML (linked to earlier on in the thread) the functions are in the "global" section so I imagine they work for both music and video... maybe even pictures. But i'm Not 100%. May have to give it a try later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burke Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 reason I asked is /as you know) you can assign different function in different section. So skip chapter in video could be next item in audio section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris! Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 That's a good point. @vanzan did you still want the chapter skip to be the same button as playlist skip or do you not need chapter script. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris! Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 That's a good point. @vanzan did you still want the chapter skip to be the same button as playlist skip or do you not need chapter script. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanZan Posted October 24, 2012 Report Share Posted October 24, 2012 I suppose I'd prefer playlist skip as I have XBMC on a Revo and no DVD or Blu Ray drive to necessitate the chapter script. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burke Posted October 25, 2012 Report Share Posted October 25, 2012 Something like this should alow you to set next/previous item in your playlist, just replace one and two with key you want. <keymap> <global> <keyboard> <one>skipnext</one> <two>skipprevious</two> <l>toggledebug</l> </keyboard> </global> </keymap> If you would like to have next/previous item in audio section and next/previous chapter in full screen video assigned so same latter something like this should do the trick. Unfortunately I do not have any video with chapters to test right now. </keymap> <mymusicplaylist> <keyboard> <a>skipnext</a> <b>skipprevious</b> </keyboard> </mymusicplaylist> <fullscreenvideo> <keyboard> <a>nextscene</a> <b>previousscene</b> </keyboard> </fullscreenvideo> </keymap> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalb0y Posted October 26, 2012 Report Share Posted October 26, 2012 But that's also the default behavior for the comma and period keys. Comma (,) skips back to the previous playlist item and period (.) skips to the next item. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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