Since some time I’m facing issues with non-working controls in mplayer.
It’s pretty annoying. The last time I googled for a solution I couldn’t findanything as a fix. Luckily this time I found the solution
It’s pretty easy and it comes simply to adding a line to /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf
in Debian or any other location where mplayer.conf is located:
Here is the line required to be added:
nojoystick=yes
In case if it has to be done on user level. The same option has to be included in
~/.mplayer/config
Cheers 🙂
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Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.63
Thanks! I’ve been looking for this solution for so long time…
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Wow, this tip was really useful; I thought this behavior was a bug 🙂
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Yeah I thought so, as well but it’s not 😛
Nice to have you hear Dave.
Best
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Greeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaat! So many thanks!
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Well I had this problem since long ago, on a Debian client running as Virtualbox guest (both on XWindow and in console)… the same did not happen on a real machine so in my case I think it was an issue with the VB video driver or the like. Anyway… trying adding this parameter to the conf files seems to have fixed it! thanks 🙂
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Thank you
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glad to help 🙂
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Still caught me two years on. Thanks!
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Thank you for this, it baffled me that mplayer stopped accepting any keyboard input after I upgraded my kernel but you tip worked for me.
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Worked! Thanks a lot!.
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