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Hello,

I recently upgraded VLC from a Twoflower version to Rincewind and now my telnet connection doesn't work anymore.

I have added the telnet interface to VLC and attempt to connect to it using localhost:4212 with putty.

I get the error message:

Puttytel Fatal Error : Network Error : Connection Refused.

I could previously connect using this method using a Twoflower build. I have tried the following with no result:

VLC -> Tools -> Preferences (All) -> Main Interfaces (telnet ticked) -> lua (lua telnet) password (added a password and saved).

This is very frustrating. I was hoping to use telnet to connect to an instance of the player using python, retrieve a playlist and dynamically set the next track to play.

Also, I noticed in one of the previous versions the playlist command had been removed from telnet, I hope this isnt' the case in the newest version but I can't connect to it so I can't even check that.

Any help greatly appreciated.

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This is very frustrating. I was hoping to use telnet to connect to an instance of the player using python, retrieve a playlist and dynamically set the next track to play.