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Yes, maybe - but using the slider in the GUI works fine, so whatever the GUI is doing here, it should be possible to do this from the command line as well. Right now I workaround this issue, by streaming the file via a socket to VLC so that I can control the start position. And in order to make VLC ...

1.0.0~rc2 doesn't work either. With another VDR recording now even the seeking via the RC interface doesn't work (VLC seems to think the video starts at 09:57:00 instead of 00:00:00 - strange!) Seeking via the slider in the GUI always works perfectly fine - but there seems to be absolutely no way to...

Hi! I'm trying to start a video from a file at a specific position. --start-time works for some videos, but not for all. It works e.g. fine with an AVI, but not with a VDR recording (PES format). `vlc --start-time 120 001.vdr` always starts the video at the beginning. But seeking (e.g. with "se...

That's too bad! It should be.

Using VLC 0.9.9a from the console / script is kinda awkward. If I start VLC to play a video and close the playback window, the VLC process doesn't end. It will only end, with --play-and-exit or vlc://quit when the video is played to the end, but not, when the video window is simply closed. I tried 1...