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@ralbright Yeah got it to work (with some limitations) and no it is not easy to play non supported file formats in a browser in general. In my case, i start vlc on the server that serves the webpage, encode to mpeg1 transport stream, rewrap with ffmpeg in order to avoid choppiness and send the outpu...

Or just ask for help with your script here, including your code and a description of the problem you face

No need to write the status to a file and read that in extra steps, you could just use findstr: after that, %ERRORLEVEL% is 0 if state is playing or 1 if state is different.

I am not aware about any working embedding option that works at this very moment, similar discussion here:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=149781
Altough i am not sure if the vlc.js they speak about will ever come to life in the form that it currently is.

$.ajax implies that you want to do that in a browser, most likely from a different webserver than vlc's builtin one. That again means that your problem is CORS. VLC webserver does not allow CORS because the responses of the builtin webserver do not include the "access-control" headers for ...

You can for example start vlc with -I http and periodically check status.xml if the time you are looking for has passed.

You didnt mention which kind of file it is. If it is a transport stream you might get away with the --program= option. If not, i believe vlc just cannot do what you want currently, so you'd have to rewrap your file to .ts before doing what you like. But if you do that, you could just use ffmpeg and ...

When vlc commandline is started with http-pass only but not username: -I http --http-host 127.0.0.1 --http-port 8001, --http-pass vlc curl.exe -u ":vlc" http://localhost:8001/requests/status.xml if you want a username too, use curl option -u "username:passwd" Alternatively you co...

Small update, i changed the strategy and dropped the udp output for forcing realtime but instead i do spawn ffmpeg paralell to vlc and pipe the vlc output via stdin to ffmpeg. ffmpeg does a codec copy and -re for forcing realtime output. This seems to work a lot more stable than vlc directly streami...

Dears, sorry that i am totally new here and directly post my first question, i hope this is not offending to anyone. Using VLC latest release 3.0.17.4. I am spawning vlc from nodejs and configure it to send "what it plays" to stdout (which is forwarded to a jsmpeg webplayer). This all seem...