Controlling a VLC streaming server through rc interface

[jucas_lo]

Hi

I would like to know how can I control a VLC through rc or telnet interface when using the daemon flag (-d or --daemon).

The only thing I really need is reliable way to stop and restart the streaming server, when the vlc instance is running in the background.

I've tried something like this:

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cvlc -d --quiet --extraintf rc --rc-host localhost:8092 --color v4l:// :v4l-vdev=/dev/video0 --sout '#transcode{vcodec=MJPG,vb=8000,scale=1}:std{access=http,mux=ts,dst=0.0.0.0:1234/webcam.mjpeg}:sout-all

But that doesn't work...

Strangely enough when I supress the -d option, I can do telnet on the port and control VLC, but when I use the -d option, I always get a Connection Refused

I would appreciate all your suggestions.
Anything that lets me stop and start the streaming remotely will work it doesn't need to be an specific interface. But I need it to run as a daemon, in the background.

thanks

Edit: I'm using OpenSuse 10.3, installed VLC from VideoLan Repositories using version 0.9.9a Grishenko

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Are you allowed to bind localhost:8092 ?
Have you tried webinterface?

[jucas_lo]

Thanks for your answer.

I haven't tried the web interface, but I need to be able to control (basically just start and stop) the server from command line, and I don't know if I can do that with the web interface, is it possible?

(And yes I'm allowed to bind to that port)

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

you can get the request page to do that... What are the messages?