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Excellent idea... I added --logfile vlc.log --logmode text --log-verbose -1 but alas no log file is created but then I changed it to --verbose=2 --file-logging --logfile=vlc-log.txt and it is logging a lot of info so I am now just waiting for it to stop doing anything

I have a custom digital signage project that runs under Ubuntu 17.10. It queries a mysql database on a server and decides what movies to play on this device and then adds them to the playlist using the rc interface. The VLC player is involved programatically as: /usr/bin/vlc --fullscreen --loop --no...