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What is the maximum number of items you can put on a playlist?

What happens if you attempt to enqueue an additional item beyond the max? Does it just bump off the oldest item on the playlist?

Thanks for any help

Given Enqueue'd videos in a playlist

Is there anyway to shorten the time interval between videos so the next video starts quicker ?

Is there anyway to do a cross-fade between videos so as one is ending the next one is starting? (and adjust the cross-fade time)

Thanks for any help.

- what about starting and staying in FullScreen On mode as commanded by the RC interface command... FullScreen On - While video playing no controls or menu bars show but when video ends the commands re-appear on the screen... - Is there anyway to force the controls and menu bars not to appear when n...

Is there anyway to force VLC to remain in full screen mode... even when no video's are playing? Two cases... 1 - launch with no video specified on the command line - screen opens 'mid-sized' until you play a video 2 - launch with a video specified on the command line... and the video ends... then th...

Is there anyway to tell VLC to not open the "error" window?

On the first occurance of an "error" you can tell the it to "hide future errors"

But is there anyway to disable the "error" window from the start so it never pops up.

Thanks for any help.

Once VLC is running, can you issue additional commands to it from the command line or must u use the RC Interface?

Thanks for any help.

If I telnet into the right port on the PC running VLC in Remote Control (RC) mode the RC interface comes right up...

Is there anyway to have VLC require a user name and password before allowing someone access to the RC interface?

Thanks for any help.

I've got freeSSHd server running on the PC1 with VLC running in Remote Control mode and listening on Port 26. I can get the Remote Control interface on PC2 if I telnet to port 26... But if I try to get the Remote Control Interface on PC 2 by using SSH on port 26 it doesn't work. Is there any way to ...

Would someone be kind enough to help out here. I want to run vlc on one PC and control it from another PC. (both on the lame local network) I wanted to use VLC RC/Remote Control as opposed to telnet as I understand it is more advanced and telnet is not secure... I've attempted to follow the instruct...

I can get VLC and RC going both on same PC... ditto for telnet... But... I want VLC running on PC1 and to be able to Remote Control it from PC2 on the same in-house network... 1 - For RC must you have telnet server enabled on the host PC ? 2 - What command line to start on Host PC ? 3 - What command...

Running VLC in full screen mode on a PC and with extraintf RC also running on the same PC 1 - Is there anyway to have the RC interface hidden... running in the background... and still be able to send commands to it? 2 - Once VLC is running is there anyway to exit and restart the RC Interface w/o lau...

1 - Does the RC/Remote Control Interface have more commands than the Telnet Interface ? I read here http://wiki.videolan.org/Console "It is comparable to the rc interface, but less advanced." In what respect is it less advanced? Limited command set or what? 2 - Also - when using Telnet to ...

I now have VLC and RC running on the same PC

But I'm having to enter commands into RC manually...

Is there a way to issue commands to RC from the Windows Command Line

so that a batch file could issue the commands...

thanks for any help.

I'm trying to take advantage of some of the commands available in RC Interface that are not available in VLC running alone... like Clear Playlist or Playlist Status and some others Need 4 sample command lines to send commands to RC which then controls VLC... which is playing (not streaming) videos f...

Thanks VLC_help !
- And can yu run VLC RC interface on the same PC?
- And in silent (non-visible) mode ?
thanks again!

Thanks Jean-Baptiste. That is exactly what I needed to know.

Been gone awhile but am back now and was considering downloading the VLC Application source and seeing if I could get it to compile, etc. But I don't see a forum for VLC App dev... (or did I miss it?) I only see libVLC forum... 1 - Is the VLC application still being developed and distributed as an A...

If vlc is playing enqueued videos.. Is there a way to empty/flush the enqueue list. ..
1 At the end of current video?
2 Immediately, stopping current video?
All without closing the VLC instance.

Thanks for any help.

Can you query VLC "status" from the command line? - Is it playing a video or an audio file? - How much play time remains? - Is it playing a playlist? - Position in the playlist? - Remaining time till playlist media is done? - Is VLC in full screen mode? - etc... other status checks Thanks ...

Thanks guys!

OK but can you run two instances of VLC on the same PC?

The first VLC instance serving video to the LAN.
The second VLC instance displaying video being streamed by another LAN computer.

Thanks for the help.

1 - Can VLC be run as a Windows Process... or whatever... ... so that the VLC Window is not open and not viewable by the user? ... that is... VLC is playing videos (or streaming) in the background but without a VLC window being open? 2 - If so, how would we launch this from a batch file or via the W...

We are trying to stream Skype video to PC's on our LAN... (VLC must see Skype video as a video source and then stream it to our LAN) While at the same time (on same PC) a second instance of VLC receives another video stream on our LAN and feeds it back to the Skype caller. This would call for runnin...

The Setup: Sending PC ip = 192.168.1.101 Receiving PC ip = 192.168.1.104 Sending PC command Line: vlc --vvv --loop video1.mp4 --sout udp:192.168.1.104 --ttl 12 Receiving PC command line: vlc udp://:1234 But then using... ... Windows Task Manager to find VLC's PID (process id) ... netstat -ano to fin...

Correction: Upon further testing even this setup is cutting off the last of converted/transcoded videos. Example: Original AVI length = 41.242 seconds Converted MP4 length = 40.974 seconds This .268 seconds may not seem like much.. ... but when the video is a short tutorial or other narrative... ......