VLM on Raspberry Pi - only few commands

[franc]

Hallo

I have setup a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ to watch videos with it with VLC-Player 3.0.6 Vetinary on Raspbian Stretch OS.

Now I need a remote control for it and I found VLC media player web interface - VLM.
But there are only few controls, I miss a lot.

I tried to use the "VLC Graphite Web Interface Theme v1.0" but my problem starts that I dont find any html-folder as described in the VLC Graphite ReadMe.

So now I have questions:

- how can I change the VLM-Theme on Linux (Debian Stretch)?
- is it possible to use the VLC-command for Position (default Keyboard Shortcut: P), to show the time's position in the video?

Thanks.

frank

[franc]

OK, I found the html folder, its in:

/usr/share/vlc/lua/http/

but the VLC Graphite Web Interface is not working properly. Somebody knows a good tutorial to understand this VLM?

[franc]

If I only new, how to add these 3 elements:

1. jump short back
2. jump short forward
3. show time position (default keyboard shortcut is "P")

In the VLM-commands I cannot find anything about that.
In the html code I find a lot of "<?vlc ... > special tags, I don't know what kind of interpreter does work these tags out.

Found the page Hacker Guide/VLM Internals, downloaded the source of vlc but neither helps to understand.

All mistery for me and no documentation which explains that.

[franc]

At least I found something. In:

/usr/share/vlc/lua/http/requests/README.txt

there is a bunch of commands via request, to control the player. E.g.

http://192.168.0.160:8080/requests/brow ... d=pl_pause
(I ommit now the "http://192.168.0.160:8080" because then the post would contain illigal ammount of urls, not allowed in this forum)
/requests/browse.xml?command=pl_forcepause
/requests/browse.xml?command=pl_forceresume
/requests/browse.xml?command=pl_stop

to pause/play, force pause, force resume and stop the running player. That works at least. 192.168.0.160 is the local IP of my Rasp, where the vlc is running. Or subtitle delay:

/requests/browse.xml??command=subdelay&val=<delayinseconds>
e.g.:
/requests/browse.xml?command=subdelay&val=-15
/requests/browse.xml?command=subdelay&val=6

or audio delay:
/requests/browse.xml??command=audiodelay&val=<delayinseconds>
e.g.:
/requests/browse.xml??command=audiodelay&val=0.5

Or jump:
/requests/browse.xml?command=seek&val=<val>
e.g. jump 1 minute forward:
/requests/browse.xml?command=seek&val=+1M
or jump to the 10th minute:
/requests/browse.xml?command=seek&val=600

which is already handy

But I still don't find the time position (show it on the screen).
I continue my search...

[franc]

By the way, this is the content of the README.txt (in Pastebin, here I cannot post as much characters).
from the Mac where it is in:
/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/share/lua/http/requests/README.txt

I still don't understand why it is e.g.:
/requests/browse.xml?command=seek&val=+1M
and not:
/requests/status.xml?command=seek&val=+1M
because the commands (in the example: seek) are listet not underneath browse.xml but under status.xml.
But it is not working with status.xml but works with browse.xml

[franc]

I can add a Task in Tasker (Android-App) with a HTTP Get (in the "Net" Action Category):

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Server:Port :1234@192.168.0.160:8080 Path /requests/browse.xml?command=seek&val=+10S

(the other values are untouched. My VLC-Lua-Web-Password is 1234)
This works flawlessly and vlc jumps 10 seconds forward
So with this I could "easily" build a VLC-Remote-App with many many commands.
But still not the time position

[franc]

But after all, I didnt continue that VLM features, because I just use a wireless keyboard, which can use all functions of VLC