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Since trac.videolan.org seems to be broken (I'm not the only one who can neither log in nor reset my password) I post this here. This fix for the vlc3 --start-time failure is backported from vlc-git (commit 59ea3e67fbc7ff5a649cc549ec512ffe55d62a51). It seems to work, but the resume times will be dif...

Since my bug reports keep getting killed, I have to fix this myself: diff --git a/share/lua/intf/cli.lua b/share/lua/intf/cli.lua index e2fa856..d6d3001 100644 --- a/share/lua/intf/cli.lua +++ b/share/lua/intf/cli.lua @@ -343,7 +343,7 @@ function help(name,client,arg) end if val.args then str = str ...

Solved - sort of, at least the Lua part. According to the bug report I filed about missing documentation of the change in vlc.object.input(), "time" , VLC object variables are internal and won't be documented, so users writing their own interface scripts will have to study the files in vlc...

I already know that you have multiply the time in seconds with 1000000 (why?) for seeking with lua in vlc-3.0. But that does not work on the commandline: vlc dvd://<path>#<title> --start-time=50000000 does not seek 50 seconds into the title. Neither does --start-time 50 or :start-time=50 or changing...

I was wrong - it can be further reduced. And I am having trouble believing this myself. Not sure if this code proves anything - I wanted to find out about polling, but it turns out it's not even required. Anyway, for local commandline control of VLC this seems to be the way to go (3 cheers for good ...

A minimal console-only host module. I can't reduce it any further (and I don't think it would make sense to try). vlc.net.POLLIN = 1 and vlc.net.POLLOUT = 4, at least on my box. To use it, move it to $HOME/.local/share/vlc/lua/intf/modules/minimalhost.lua and require it in the shell.lua script. The ...

A hostless version of the CLI with the needed parts of host.lua inserted (to have a single file for studying). To avoid too much repetition, I left out some of the functions. Unfortunately, polling (which is required) seems to be undocumented. This should be easier. --[==============================...

A stripped-down console-only version of host.lua. To use it, move it to $HOME/.local/share/vlc/lua/intf/modules/consolehost.lua (doesn't need to be compiled) and require it in the shell.lua script. The h.status_callbacks[host.status.password] = on_password line can be commented out. --[=============...

This is what I have so far. It might be a good idea to replace "set_var" with "set" and "get_var" with "get" and to use something like "set_env" and "get_env" for setting the environment (the most used commands should have the shortest name...

A version of the main loop with error handling: --GPL goes here. I hope I did not commit a crime by forgetting the copyright notice while running do -- accept new connections and select active clients local write,read = h:accept_and_select() -- handle clients in write mode for _, client in pairs(wri...

Pardon me if I am still in the wrong forum. Put this where it belongs if necessary. I posted an earlier version of this in "scripting VLC with Lua", and I can put it back there. The copyright notice is adapted from host.lua. --[==============================================================...

Thanks.

Thanks! Can you please explain how your script works? I really don't know jack about Lua; I'm working on my best guess here. Since this is about documenting the Lua interface, please contribute. I am not really competent to write documentation; I'm only doing it because I could not find anything use...

Consider this to be part of the VLC documentation (which is extremely lacking). Feedback would be welcome. The copyright notice is adapted from host.lua. --[==========================================================================[ shell.lua: A stripped console-only CLI for use with shell scripts -...

I posted a feature request:
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/13976

I am trying to rewrite cli.lua so it can be used in shell scripts (that makes more sense to me than trying to write an entire interface in lua). What I want to do is something like this: my_variable=`lua <path/to/cli.lua> <arguments>` echo $my_variable >> my_textfile.txt #saving current state echo $...

Sorry, it does not work for me without the patch; I just tried it again: video_filter/opencv_wrapper.c:42:20: fatal error: cxcore.h: No such file or directory #include <cxcore.h> ^ compilation terminated. Makefile:12228: recipe for target 'video_filter/opencv_wrapper.lo' failed make[4]: *** [video_f...

vlc-3.0-opencv.patch: diff --git a/modules/video_filter/opencv_wrapper.c b/modules/video_filter/opencv_wrapper.c index 0ca54a3..ce0d900 100644 --- a/modules/video_filter/opencv_wrapper.c +++ b/modules/video_filter/opencv_wrapper.c @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ #include <vlc_image.h> #include "filter_pictur...

Can you try prefixing your command with sudo -u <yourusername> ? That should run it as a normal user.

No need to use then with 2.2.0 - as I said, that's where I ***stole*** them from. As for formatted patches, I assume you mean this (hope it works, it is without the changes to cli.lua) Two patches are taken from the archlinux vlc-2.1.5 build: vlc-2.1.5-ffmpeg-2.4.patch vlc-2.0.7-vaapi-compat.patch S...

Next try. I didn't expect to have to provide production code. This was supposed to be a quick way to test the scripts, which aren't production code either diff --git a/share/lua/intf/cli.lua b/share/lua/intf/cli.lua index 5af1e73..9b0f07e 100644 --- a/share/lua/intf/cli.lua +++ b/share/lua/intf/cli....

Edit: The patch mixes spaces and tabs, but it works when applied locally.

Is that what you meant? diff -ruN /home/BUILD/cli.lua /home/BUILD/cli-mod.lua --- /home/BUILD/cli.lua 2014-10-04 18:00:36.819182000 +0200 +++ /home/BUILD/cli-mod.lua 2015-01-25 12:59:55.421282000 +0100 @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ running = true --[[ Setup default environement ]] -env = { prompt = "> &quo...

This is an example of how to automate VLC using shell scripts on top of the lua interface. These scripts could also be modified to bookmark media files and bluray disks, so I hope they are of more general interest than DVD playback. Earlier versions of these scripts, and some general remarks, are po...

These patches are not my own code; they are just diffs with the corresponding files of vlc-2.2.0 (May be the first time in recorded history that this actually worked). Tested with vlc-2.1.6. dvdnav.c.diff: --- vlc-2.1.5/modules/access/dvdnav.c.orig 2013-06-24 20:00:38.000000000 +0200 +++ vlc-2.1.5/m...