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Drive RC interface via code?

Postby Jinja » 18 Jul 2005 21:15

Hi,

I have a .NET application from which I would like to play and control video using VLC.

Could anyone give me a clue as to how I would best do this?

I would like to be able to launch the player from my app with the RC interface, and then send commands to this interface from the same code.

How best would I do this, or is there an easier way?

Many thanks,

David

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Redirect standard in?

Postby Jinja » 19 Jul 2005 11:24

Hi,

Let me redo my original post from a different angle:

On XP Home:

Can I run "vlc.exe --intf rc" in a dos box, and redirect the standardIn of this dos box from within my vb.net application?

If so, I could then use StreamWriter to write commands to vlc.....
Can this be done?

I'm trying it and it doesn't seem to work....

Related to this, from a DOS box, if I type "vlc.exe --help > out.text", I should be redirecting Standard Out to the text file, but this doesn't work either.
Could someone tell me why this is? Any help appreciated......

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Postby zorglub » 19 Jul 2005 15:30

Hello,

I don't know much about this under windows, but your problem might be related to stuff about TTY emulation.

I would suggest using the ability of the RC interface to bind on a network socket and using network (over localhost) communication to communicate with RC.
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Re: Redirect standard in?

Postby Guest » 19 Aug 2005 23:50

Hi,
Can I run "vlc.exe --intf rc" in a dos box, and redirect the standardIn of this dos box from within my vb.net application?

If so, I could then use StreamWriter to write commands to vlc.....
Can this be done?
I did something similar from Java on Solaris. In order to make it actually work as expected I had to use the (not very well documented) --rc-fake-tty option. It also doesn't hurt to make sure you are consuming the stdout and stderr from VLC or you could end up with a deadlocked process.
Related to this, from a DOS box, if I type "vlc.exe --help > out.text", I should be redirecting Standard Out to the text file, but this doesn't work either.
Could someone tell me why this is? Any help appreciated......
I noticed this on Windows, and frankly find it really annoying. I wanted to capture some text from the output of vlc -vvv and not only is file redirection bypassed, but the console window that opens doesn't cooperate with text selection.

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you can use sockets

Postby jarekf » 20 Aug 2005 03:29

I once had similar questions, then I got several very good advices and I was able to make it to work with socket interface (instead of RC). See viewtopic.php?t=6065

I wish it was possible to control more options remotely. It is good now but still some options (e.g. Extended Gui) are not available via remote socket control.

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Cool

Postby Jinja » 20 Aug 2005 12:18

Thanks Jarek, I didn't come across that thread, and didn't know about those switches either. Will play with it ASAP.


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