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Thanks for your reply, Remi. So I have fixed this without understanding it, by setting GUI settings to match roughly match the command line--lua, rc, telnet checked at defaults, set to run as a daemon. Now whatever the obscure issue was, it is no more. Where skill is lacking, luck may prevail. Leavi...

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Problem is a socket bind error--it cannot assign the address. This only happens when I start it from the startup folder, however. I would think permissions on the port but it works fine if I run it in the terminal after logging in.

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Thanks! VLC latest, Raspberry Pi 64-bit, user myuser. I am controlling a video playing on a raspberry pi desktop via rc telnet. If I type the command string manually in a terminal "vlc -I rc --rc-host 192.168.1.24 :4212 --fullscreen --started-from-file /home/myuser/Videos/myuservideo.xspf"...

Is it possible to play a video on a loop from A to B, then, on a signal, say a keypress, finish the video? I would then auto restart the video, which would play the A to B loop again. More or less an "attract mode" followed by the rest of the video. Raspberry Pi 4. Raspbian, but I could ru...