The VideoLAN Forums

We are using vlc as a streamserver, starting and stopping it remotely. It causes us all sorts of headaches that we have to display the GUI on an Xserver somewhere every time we start the stream. Is it possible to start vlc without any GUI?

--
Colin Rosenthal
State and University Library
Aarhus, Denmark

use

-Irc
-Idummy

or

-I http

Yes, you may call vlc with the remote control interface by: "vlc --intf rc ..." and then you can control a little bit with command-line commands such as stop, play, pause etc. simply to type in your text-terminal.

You may also call vlc without any interface by "vlc --intf dummy ...". Then you may stop vlc by the "kill" command in a shell or in a script (usable by by the cron- or at-daemon).


You may also use the script "vlclauncher.sh" that can be found the package freerecord:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=401351
and which allows you to start vlc such that it will stops a given time later by:

vlclauncher.sh "vlc --intf dummy blabla-options" XX:XX

where XX:XX is your end time to kill vlc.

Yes, you may call vlc with the remote control interface by: "vlc --intf rc ..." and then you can control a little bit with command-line commands such as stop, play, pause etc. simply to type in your text-terminal.

You may also call vlc without any interface by "vlc --intf dummy ...". Then you may stop vlc by the "kill" command in a shell or in a script (usable by by the cron- or at-daemon).


You may also use the script "vlclauncher.sh" that can be found the package freerecord:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=401351
and which allows you to start vlc such that it will stops a given time later by:

vlclauncher.sh "vlc --intf dummy blabla-options" XX:XX

where XX:XX is your end time to kill vlc.

Thanks. That's what I was looking for.
Colin