ncurses interface mode on Mac OS X terminal

Hi,

under Mac OS X 10.5.8 when starting vlc with the ncurses interface from a terminal, the playlist loads, the music starts, and the text user interface loads showing the playlist and even the progress bar works fine, but nothing happens when I hit any key (I tried 'h' for help, and all the arrow buttons, but nothing). It seems the ncurses interface does not react to anything, except CTRL-C which of course just stops the application and exits.

This was the command I used:

$ vlc --intf ncurses playlist.m3u

Shall I send some more verbose output from the command line?

Thanks, Balint