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Hi!

I use VLC for (among many other things) Viewing live TV over DVB-T2 usb dongle + Antenna
I have a custom shortcut that opens "TV" Like so:


This opens up a *random* (?) channel (one of the channels available on the DVB-T2 Broadcasts in my area)
And I'm able to switch to other channels using: Menu --> Playback --> Program --> < Select the channel from the list >
This takes 4(!!) clicks, doesn't have any keyboard shortcut, and is very annoying to do every time i want to change to some other channel.
I know I can create multiple shortcuts, each with its own "hard coded" channel in the paramanters (using :program=x for each channel)
But in that case - in order to change a channel - I must CLOSE the currently open VLC instance, and double click a different channel shortcut.. plus there will be many shortcuts this way.

Isn't there a better solution for this? an easy way to add a keyboard shortcut or (even better) some UI buttons to allow me to click "fwd channel" or "bwd channel"? (Or buttons that go directly to specific channels)

Thanks for any input!
-ktopaz

One shortcut loading a playlist file containing available programs. Then you could use "Play previous/next" buttons/hotkeys. Check "Set/Play playlist bookmark" hotkeys in VLC preferences.

Yes, you can make a playlist as explained here:
https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.ph ... 01#p182301

Notice:
Newer versions of VLC use frequency=642000000 and not 642000 anymore
Bandwidth=8 for most countries but UK and Australia where bandwidth=7