Looping a single file

[aleph]

Hi guys,
I need to run VLC immediately after the system starts and make it play indefinitely a single video file.
I've seen that the --loop option only works with playlists; is there a way to loop a single file?
If not, how can I create a playlist from the command line?

Another project for the future: I'd like VLC to play (in loop) all the video content of a specific folder. I should be able to remotely add a video file to that folder and it should be automatically added to the playlist... is it possible? If yes, how?

Thank you all very much.

Aleph

[h2g2bob]

Just use a playlist with 1 item in it -
vlc --loop filename

Also just add a folder as a playlist item to add a whole folder
vlc '/mnt/c/my_music/'
vlc "C:\my music\"

As for dynamically looping whats in the folder, try this in bash / sh

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while echo; do \ for FNAME in *; do \ vlc "$FNAME" vlc:quit; \ done; \ done;