I think you are using the RC and the telnet interfaces together. As far as I know, the RC is for controlling the "main interface" of VLC (pause, play, etc.) and the telnet is for controlling the "control interface" (I don't understand the difference, though...) - try the followin...
I suppose you are using the -I rc option (or --extraintf rc). I have observed similar behavior when connecting with TeraTerm to VLC, but VLC would just not react to the commands. Maybe an option is to start it with "--extraintf rc" and do something on the GUI and check if your telnet clien...
No help? Anyway, I could solve the command sending problem, but still don't get "spontaneous" messages from the VLC. All messages like volume change, new track started etc. stay buffered until I send a command. As soon as I send it, I get all stowed information at once. If someone knows th...
Hi, I have two problems when trying to connect to vlc via the remote interface: One thing is, I get messages from VLC only when sending something, at least a <CR> character. Otherwise VLC stays quiet. The other thing is that I can send one command, vlc accepts it, but then is over. By sending the co...
Hi, I hope this is the right forum for this. I'm using the VLC as a background music player, controlled remotely via the rc interface. Is there a way to get the "total playing time" (including previous played titles)? with the get_time command, I get the seconds into the actual track, but ...
I'm having the same issue here, with telnet it's too complex, since as stated above it's for streaming only. I have a partial success using the following command line, with this I could connect via a hyperterminal window, and "pause" stops and starts my music fine. The m3u file is a playli...