2011-02-24, 21:13
Hello. I tried XBMC yesterday for the first time and it seems really great. This is a vast improvement from a few years ago when I couldn't find one media center app that would do everything I wanted. XBMC seems to fit the bill perfectly.
Except…
I have an Ortek VRV-1100 remote. I just bought it recently when I thought I'd be using Windows 7 Media Center. And of course it works perfectly fine with WMC. However it has a very, very annoying problem with XBMC and I'd like to see if we could come up with a solution.
If I'm playing any video media, and I bring up the menu, I can't get rid of it unless I use the mouse control on the remote, move the cursor off any menu elements on to the video, and click. Every other media center I've tried either has a place to move the cursor or focus to the video (using the menu keys) and press OK to dismiss the menu, or the menu times out after a period of non-use.
I have tried to Google for this and have not found anything relevant. I do understand that since this is a free open-source project, the responsibility lies with me to make the changes necessary to make it work for me, but I would appreciate a push in the right direction.
But I have looked for remote config files and the information is confusing. The information I find on your forums says to replace "keyboard.xml" in the XBMC directory. But there is no keyboard.xml in the XBMC directory. There is a keyboard.xml in Program Files\XBMC\system\keymaps, but there's also a "remote.xml" in there (and 10 other files), and this is a remote. Further, while the ready-made config files may be nice, I have not been able to determine if there is a "hide menu" function I can assign to a remote button.
Also, I have found that while playing a video, I can only access the OSD, and the "audio options" and "video options" by using the mouse control on the remote. Is there a way to get to this with remote buttons?
Thanks for any help you can provide.
Except…
I have an Ortek VRV-1100 remote. I just bought it recently when I thought I'd be using Windows 7 Media Center. And of course it works perfectly fine with WMC. However it has a very, very annoying problem with XBMC and I'd like to see if we could come up with a solution.
If I'm playing any video media, and I bring up the menu, I can't get rid of it unless I use the mouse control on the remote, move the cursor off any menu elements on to the video, and click. Every other media center I've tried either has a place to move the cursor or focus to the video (using the menu keys) and press OK to dismiss the menu, or the menu times out after a period of non-use.
I have tried to Google for this and have not found anything relevant. I do understand that since this is a free open-source project, the responsibility lies with me to make the changes necessary to make it work for me, but I would appreciate a push in the right direction.
But I have looked for remote config files and the information is confusing. The information I find on your forums says to replace "keyboard.xml" in the XBMC directory. But there is no keyboard.xml in the XBMC directory. There is a keyboard.xml in Program Files\XBMC\system\keymaps, but there's also a "remote.xml" in there (and 10 other files), and this is a remote. Further, while the ready-made config files may be nice, I have not been able to determine if there is a "hide menu" function I can assign to a remote button.
Also, I have found that while playing a video, I can only access the OSD, and the "audio options" and "video options" by using the mouse control on the remote. Is there a way to get to this with remote buttons?
Thanks for any help you can provide.