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Nice work.
REWD (and FFWD for that matter) is always troublesome with most container types as it requires seeking to keyframes which don't come along very often, so don't be surprised if it doesn't work as well as you'd like. Seeking is much more useful - I presume left/right buttons already do this?
Perhaps you could detail what each of the buttons do in your current setup and we can go from there?
We definitely need a quick and easy way to stop the video playing - I'm not opposed to stop replacing return to UI in fullscreen video - we have resume, after all. We need to be consistent with music though, where stopping during a visualisation may not be the desired behaviour.
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Hi Jonathan,
thanks for taking an interest and looking in on what we're doing here. i'll update the first post in a bit with a detailed list of what each button does in the areas i have changed. i believe my problem with rewind may actually be a problem with the mapping of button 9 as i've tried not only rewind but big and small step back. none of them had any response. can anyone else confirm this?
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I am so happy someone is working on this. I still have not found the perfect Harmony remote solution in a keymap.xml with a working REW/FF.
The way I would like it to work would be the chapter skip buttons do the 15 minute skip back and forward. But the regular rew/ff buttons, tapping once goes to 2x FF, again to 4X FF, again to 8X FF, and so on. No keymap.xml I have found has been able to accomplish this yet.
This keymap may be made for the Apple Remote instead of a Harmony so maybe I am in the wrong thread. But no keymap I have yet found is getting me a working FF/REW the way I want.
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Context menu is on Menu hold. Wonder if it's more use on Play hold or not - I tend to use it more than movie information - particularly with the information we have in the usual UI nowadays. I guess it's inconsistent with that button on fullscreen video though.
In that respect, pressing menu once for an OSD while playing menu, but treating it as "back" everywhere else is also inconsistent. One option is to map Menu to stop while in fullscreen, with play hold mapped to the OSD?
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El Massman,
Downloading this now and will try in a few. Up until this keymap, the chapter skip forward / back buttons were looking to do just that, an actual chapter skip for a DVD. Since I am mostly playing back AVI and MKV files in XBMC, they were just going to the end of the file and stopping when pressing skip forward, or back to the start (0:00) when I pressed chapter back.
FF and REW were skipping at 10 minute chunks at a time, and the left/right options on the Harmony's D-pad were jumping maybe around 30 seconds at a time.
I just missed my good 'ol variable FF/REW speeds. Trying this now. Thanks for taking the time to make it.
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Yeah they're back! You rock!
I'm gonna play with this some more. Maybe I can have you add a few more features to it. This is the best keymap I have seen yet for Harmony. NICE WORK!!!
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2009-06-17, 11:38
(This post was last modified: 2009-06-17, 11:41 by El Massman.)
Revised version's up on the first post.
P.S, would it be possible to change the thread title to something a little more suitable. when i first started i basically just planned to port over the plex controls and post it up for people to use if they wanted to use it. it's starting to branch away from that now so i don't think having plex in the title's really appropriate.
Many thanks,
Marc
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