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I think I completly lost it.

I'm still trying to start vlc at boot, with rc and a unix socket or telnet socket.

I think I've found out why the load became so high when starting rc at boot.

When I start vlc like this:
/opt/vlc/bin/vlc -I rc --rc-unix /var/tmp/player1.sock --aout alsa --alsadev envy_1

I get the ncurses interface, and that's hard when there is no real tty.
the -I rc option tells that I don't want ncurses or is it me doing something wrong?
(without the -I rc socket I still get ncurses, only when I delete --rc-unix /var/tmp/player1.sock from the command line, it wont start in ncurses mode)

I am seeing the same thing. The rc interface when using a socket but no ncurses interface takes about twice the CPU power. I started a thread a while back but I got no responses.

Oh yeah. I also added the command line option --rc-fake-tty but it still uses a ton of CPU. Maybe you will have better luck with it.