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Posted: **10 Jan 2020 17:51**

Hi there

This should actually be a rather simple one, but I can't find success in using rc in my terminal.

I started reading this:https://n0tablog.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/controlling-vlc-via-rc-remote-control-interface-using-a-unix-domain-socket-and-no-programming/

But I keep getting an error like:

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VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7)
[00007f9e65807290] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[00007f9e645007f0] main libvlc error: interface "oldrc,none" initialization failed
[00007f9e645127c0] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[00007f9e645007f0] main libvlc error: interface "(null),none" initialization failed
[00007f9e645133f0] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[00007f9e645007f0] main libvlc error: interface "default" initialization failed

I see that some other people have this problem as well: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=151441&p=497841&hilit=oldrc#p497841

Is it a bug?
I think the rc module does not work properly...

What I tried:

I first made an alias to start vlc quickly:
`alias vlc="/Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC"`

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# list all modules
$ vlc --list
# i see that there is a module called 'oldrc' but no rc.
# The same I see in my preferences of vlc (version 3.0.8) on a mac os catalina.
# there i have added the interface RC (tick) which add's 'oldrc' to my "Extra interface modules"

$ vlc -p oldrc --advanced --help-verbose
# this shows the help for the oldrc module like expected 

# But when I try to use that interface
$ vlc -I oldrc
# I get the error above

I think there is something wrong. I cleary have the interface available, but still it would tell me no suitable interface was found...

I would be very glad if somebody could help me on this.
Cheers

domino

VLC version: 3.0.8
OS: Mac Os X 10.15.1 Mac os Catalina

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When trying to use

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$ vlc -I rc

I do get those errors, but it seems to luanch something:

VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari (revision 3.0.8-0-gf350b6b5a7)
[00007f9c9e010370] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[00007f9c9cc0a650] main libvlc error: interface "oldrc,none" initialization failed
[00007f9c9e010360] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[00007f9c9cc0a650] main libvlc error: interface "(null),none" initialization failed
[00007f9c9e0060c0] main playlist: playlist is empty
[00007f9c9e011030] [cli] lua interface: Listening on host "*console".
VLC media player 3.0.8 Vetinari
Command Line Interface initialized. Type `help' for help.

I then tried to add a video to the playlist:

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$ > add /Users/pathtovideo/video.mp4

And then it starts raining errors (output from command launched with `-vvv` option was too long):

> add /Users/path/video.mp4
[00007fa6cb74a830] macosx window error: Cannot create vout as Mac OS X interface was not found
[00007fa6cb6e59d0] macosx vout display error: No drawable-nsobject nor vout_window_t found, passing over.
[00007fa6cd89faf0] main video output error: video output creation failed
[00007fa6cb69efc0] main decoder error: failed to create video output
[h264 @ 0x7fa6cb817c00] get_buffer() failed
[h264 @ 0x7fa6cb817c00] thread_get_buffer() failed
[h264 @ 0x7fa6cb817c00] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x7fa6cb817c00] no frame!

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