You don't happen to have a mkfifo binary anywhere that you could bung on the player do you please so that I can try out this approach?

Attached. I've put it in the developer image ready for the next release. Some people may have noticed that the developer image in beta6 is quite a bit bigger - I've added all the tools from the tools package on the website.

Also, the IR codes are four bytes - you will not be able to read any less. I may change the way codes are sent so that the player knows if there has been a repeat code so only use the low sixteen bits for now :-)

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Mike Crowe
I may not be speaking on behalf of empeg above :-)