Display image with duration with RC interface

[Zikko]

Hello VLC buffs!

I'm struggeling here, trying to accomplish the following:
Displaying an image file (jpg etc.) for a certain number of seconds, using VLC's Remote Control Interface, which I access through TCP.
I'm doing this on Windows, but there should be nothing platform specific about this.

So, these are my thoughts on this so far:
- If I wanted to do this from the command line, the following would do it: "vlc.exe fake:// --fake-file=image.jpg --fake-duration=5000"
- I can add a fake input to the playlist via the following rc command: "add fake://", but I don't know how to pass in the file and duration parameters.
- There is a "fake" command in the RC interface. If I send "fake", there is no error message, but no other output either. I have found no docs on how to use it.

Please help me out here!
Other working approaches are off course welcome, but I need it to be RC and TCP.

Regards
Erik

[erwan10]

The following command for the rc interface has been tested successfully on WindowsNT and vlc1.0.3 :

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add fake:// :fake-file=F:\Photos\test1.jpg :fake-duration=7000

Erwan10