I'm working on an emulator that plays a random Southpark, Simpsons, etc. I set up VLC as the "emulator", and it launches the video just fine. And pressing ESC exits the video just fine. It's all *almost* working.
My problem is that VLC's hotkey configuration apparently doesn't work with joystick buttons. So, since my game's control panel is entirely built with joystick buttons, I have no way to exit or seek it the videos without bringing out the keyboard, which I hate doing.
And an additional advantage to this approach is that it could pretty easily be adapted to karaoke, which would be a kind of neat use of an arcade machine.
I don't imagine anyone knows of a video player that works with joystick keys? Is should say I'm using Ubuntu Linux.