Hiding Main VLC Window when connecting to stream

[JohnnyYent]

Hi all,

I've tried many settings but cannot seem to figure out how to hide the main VLC window when I am connecting to a HTTP stream via commandline.

I'd like it so that the main VLC/Playlist window is either opened minimised, or not opened at all and the only thing that shows on the device is the HTTP stream in fullscreen - is this currently possible does anyone know?

Many thanks!

[chubinou]

you can start VLC without the interface and require the video to go fullscreen from your command line, something like this should work:

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vlc -Idummy --fullscreen http://example.com/video.mkv

[JohnnyYent]

Hey Chubinou,

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply! I'm getting the error in the console on mac: Cannot create vout as Mac OS X Interface was not found, then a few more vout errors that come after.

This command is working perfectly on my windows devices however! Was I missing something from the installation possibly that contains the Mac OS X Interface?

I have additionally tried to force load the max osx interface by using --extraintf macosx - however this then just loads the main window as opposed to ensuring that the vout module is loaded.

I have also tried --vout opengl, but this does not appear to help.

In the console, I can see that it does seem to connect to the stream, but following the macosx window errors we get buffer failures that seem to keep processing, so it definitely looks like a vout error!

[chubinou]

Hi,

Sorry for the confusion, I'm less familiar with the OSX platform, It seems that indeed you can't play a video without having the interface on OSX