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Thanks for the replies guys and the links! I appreciate that the link is a website, but I do think the various start-time, end-time flags etc. on YouTube links was supported in a previous version of VLC (around 2.2.x), as I had written a Vim plugin last year for practicing music along with links (wh...

Hi, I noticed that that for the latest version (3.0.3), the `start-time`, `rate` and `end-time` flags don't work for YouTube links on the RC interface anymore, e.g.: vlc -I rc add https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQF5CXV9cos :start-time=10 Whereas this still works for local files: vlc -I rc add /User...

Played around with this a bit more and worked out that you can sorta get around it with: vlc -I rc add <song> :rate=0.5 loop on Although an issue is still if you change the rate, when the song loops the rate goes back to whatever you passed in when adding it (e.g. 0.5). I'll raise a ticket about it ...

In the RC interface, whenever I do something like: vlc -I rc add <song> rate 0.5 loop on After the song finishes and loops, it's back to the normal playback speed again (rate 1). However in the GUI interface, the playback speed seems to be persisted whenever the playlist loops. It would be handy to ...