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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:
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

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

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)

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