Can I pre cue a video for playback in command line

[fxmech]

Is there a way to pre load a video ideally through command line input?
I'm using processing language to tell vlc to play the video but the command both loads and starts the video.... my goal is to simultaneously trigger a midi song along with the vlc video playback...
The command line commands seem to load and play automatically so I can't wait to trigger the midi song since i dont know when vlc will finish loading and start playing the video....

I'm using processing to handle the midi playback and to send commands to start vlc...

Any suggestions on how to proceed?
The idea is to see if I can keep both video and midi in synch....too bad vlc is not doing midi on windows anymore...

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Use VLC 3.0.0 and start-as-paused option.

[fxmech]

Thank you for the reply, but I'm a bit confused.
Where is 3.0.0? I see 2.2.1 as the latest version and couldn't find a 3.0.0 beta version as an available download

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Nightly Build of VLC